A SURPRISE ALL AROUND May came, and with it warm sunny days.

There was a little balcony at the rear of the second floor, and on this Mrs.Stetson and Billy sat many a morning and sewed.

There were occupations that Billy liked better than sewing; but she was dutiful, and she was really fond of Aunt Hannah; so she accepted as gracefully as possible that good lady's dictum that a woman who could not sew, and sew well, was no lady at all.
One of the things that Billy liked to do so much better than to sew was to play on Cyril's piano.

She was very careful, however, that Mr.Cyril himself did not find this out.

Cyril was frequently gone from the house, and almost as frequently Aunt Hannah took naps.