"Come in, won't you, if it is for only five minutes ?" "Well, yes; since you are so urgent and I know of no urgent call for my services elsewhere," answered Herbert, suiting the action to the word.
"Good-morning, my son," was his mother's smiling salutation, as he bent down to give her an affectionate caress.

"I suppose you want to hear what Rosie has to say.

I will just glance over her letter, then read aloud whatever I think she would deem suitable for you all to hear." It was a pleasant, cheerful letter; all seemed to be going right with the young couple, they very happy in each other.

They were at Niagara Falls, expecting soon to leave there for some place on the Hudson, and afterward to visit the seashore; but their plans were not yet definitely arranged; nor would they be until Will's parents and Rosie's home friends, intending to go North for the summer, were heard from in regard to their plans and purposes.
"Well," said Herbert, when the reading of the letter was concluded, "I think we will have to hold a family council, taking in the Crolys, and decide those momentous questions.

Right quickly, too, for the weather is growing very warm, and if you all stay here our firm may have too much to do." "I think you are right, doctor," said the captain, "and lest you and Harold and Arthur should be overworked, I intend to see that that council is held promptly." "Well, captain, suppose we appoint this evening as the time, and Roselands as the place, as the Crolys are there, and not so able as the rest of us to go about from place to place." "That seems a very good plan," said his mother, "but I think it will not be necessary for us all to attend.