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"I shall sleep so nicely here," she said, tossing her hat into Helen's lap, and lying down at once upon the bed it had taken so long toI can wearDon't look so horrified, Wilford," she added, as she caught his eye "I shall dress me sometimes; but you don't knohat a luxury it is to feel that I need not unless I like"

"Didn't you rest at New London?" Helen asked, when Wilford had left the room

"Yes, soht, or sails upon the bay, and I had to go, forfor me to be quiet"

This, then, was the reason why Katy ca so much the rest she had not had in et it now, and before the first dinner was eaten so back to her cheeks, and her eyes began to dance just as they used to do, while herout in silvery peals at Aunt Betsy's quaint re heard the a tune A hit of a lecture Wilford deeether alone for half an hour "She h to be more womanly, and she would tire herself out with her nervous restlessness, besides giving the people a bad opinion of Mrs Wilford Ca freer when it was over, and breathing freer still when Wilford was gone, even though her tears did fall as she watched hiht, and kneould be at least four weeks before she saw hiht relief; but they were not prepared for the change it produced in Katy; who, freed from all restraint, cairl she sat upon the doorsteps and curled the dandelion stalks She did not do this now, for there were none to curl; but she strung upon a thread the delicate petals of the phlox growing by the door, and then bound it as a crown about the head of her ant Mrs Wilford Ca on her hands every ti with the old brown goat and its little kid out in the apple orchard, her head uncovered, and her bright curls blowing about her face, the feeling disappeared, and she felt that Katy had indeed coain