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To Maggie also, they isely and quickly, although life at Dru monotonous Mary had the quick, nervous tee and ive and to attend entertainments, for Drumloch was yet in the hands of

painters and upholsterers But she alent alone She had fully made

up her ie If

he liked her, he would be sure to write to Allan, and curtail his

probation, and Mary felt that such a course would be an injustice to her

plans for the gradual preparation of the girl for the position she e at Drumloch Al, then another, was fully grasped by her, until

the steward and the housekeeper took her directions as readily as they did

those of Miss Ca

small pecuniary and household details, "accounts" did not confuse her, and

they did seriously confuse Mary She couldof the "books"

which her head servants rendered weekly, and which were clear to Maggie

So, while Mary was entertaining in Blytheswood Square, and going to dinner

parties, and dances, Maggie was equally happy looking after the hundred

things which froardens and the house

de this winter John Campbell did not often visit Dru list of shopping for Maggie to attend to in

Glasgow The change was pleasant to Maggie and it was also pleasant to

Mary; for it cannot be denied, that she sometimes, at this period, chafed

under her self-imposed duty Every one has peculiarities; theyto those whose peculiarities run in

a different direction There were occasional days in which Mary felt that

it was the first necessity of life to get rid of Maggie Proie to suspect this feeling; she

was even at such tienerally coé some rich or pretty present