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As theMrs Percival often felt very

dull She had not even the exciteement of Miss Elton and Mr Norris, much of her old enmity for

Madeline faded Ellery looked to her like a fate so inferior to her own

that she could afford to drop her jealousy; and since Mr Early and Dick

were noholly released from thrall, she considered Madeline a creature

too inoffensive to be reckoned an enemy She could even share the

tolerant and amused pleasure hich the world surveys a love match

This pair was so evidently and rapturously content that they diffused

their own atmosphere Lena could not understand that variety of love,

but its presence was patent to her

Most of the "real people" as Mrs Appleton called them, in i town either for the lake

or for so place, but she was tied at home,

first because Mrs Percival the elder, whom Dick refused to desert,

preferred the wide quiet of her roorew daily ood-by for the summer to Mrs Appleton and was bidden

to come up stairs to a disordered little room where that

"I am really quite played out with all this turhed "Truly, dear Mrs Percival, I think you are to be congratulated