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"Shouldn't you be in here helping Aunt Ollie?" asked George's

voice from the front step where he seated hi "Did you see who ca work Who was it?" he asked

"Nancy Ellen and Robert," she answered

He laughed hilariously: "Brought them in a hurry, didn't we? Why

didn't they come in?"

"They came to tell me," said Kate, slowly, "that if I had married

you yesterday, as I did, that they felt so disgraced that I wasn't

to coraced?'" he cried, his colour rising "Well, what's the

s they said, I fervently hope"

"Well, they have some assurance to coot as much to listen, and then come and tell me

about it," he cried

"It was over in ato say They said it, and went Oh, I can't spare Nancy

Ellen, she's all I had!"

Kate sank down on the step and covered her face George took one

long look at her, arose, and walked out of hearing He went into

the garden and watched from behind a honeysuckle bush until he saw

her finally lift her head and wipe her eyes; then he sauntered

back, and sat down on the step beside her

"That's right," he said "Cry it out, and get it over It was

pretty mean of them to come out here and insult you, and tell any