Annie Kilburn

nger, as they drove away. Annie said not

I don't see how, exactly. Do you

ittle creature, and I knew that he would go for the dance and supper because Mr. Peck was opposed to them. He's one of the ant

both made fun o

w light on it; and if that's the way nice people are going to look at it, why, we must

uld rather not see Mrs. Wilmington with y

r arm across Annie's lap, as if to prevent her jumping out of the phaeton. "As

r of the supper and dance; I don't know that I believe

d Mrs. Munger impartially. "All you will have to

own, while a long freight train clattered deafeningly by, and then drove bumping and jou

l perdition at the least. You don't mean t

ilmington has built a very fine house on this side, and

op hands. They passed some open lots, and then, on a pleasant rise of ground, they came to a stately residence, lifted still higher on its underpinning of granite blocks. It was built in a Boston suburban taste of twenty years ago, with a lofty mansard-roof, and it was painted the stone-grey colour which was

om the instrument to meet them. A young man who had been standing beside her turned away. Mrs. Wilmington was dressed in a light mor

insically. She moved lazily about and got them into chairs, and was not resentful when Mrs. Munger broke out with "How hot you have it!" "Have we? We had the furnace lighted yesterday, and we've been in all

jaw, long eyes, and low forehead almost hidden under a thick bang. He sat down cornerw

shame. When she came to the question of the invited supper and dance, and having previously committed Mrs. Wilming

you please about it. It's none of the hands

e would think-in the abs

your aunty speak for herself. I don't know about not letting the hands stay to the dance and supper, Mrs. Munger. You know I might feel 'put upon.' I used to b

forgotten." The fact, in connection with what

's no use trying to deny it. As Mr. Putney says, he and I have our record, and we don't hav

deprecation, "that's such a very different thing. You were

hand at this moment if Mr. Wilmington had not come along and invited me to be a head-the he

be consistent," answered

re not your beginnings, Mrs. Wilmington;

I must oppose the little invited dance and supper, on principle. We all like to be consi

them. As I said to Miss Kilburn on our way here, 'if

" said Mrs. Wilmington, with a shrug.

he matter over with Mr. Putney and Dr. Morrell, and they're both opposed

u! That's a g

the part of the Nurse or not in the dramati

ck," she called over her shoulder to the young man at the window,

k him," growled

, with another laugh, "I'll

we must really be going," she added, pul

ilmington, rising with the ladies. "You

ithout regard to Annie, "all this dip

turned Mrs. Wilmington, as the ladies sat down

ce," said the nephew, bowi

gton, lifting her teasing voice to make him hear her in

litter of china and glass and a mass of

Norah," said Mrs. Wi

, chicken cutlets in white sa

ied Mrs. Munger,

e; I don't deny it,"