"One of my friends who is coming down to-night thinks he understands architecture and I want the parson to show him over the Abbey House.

Indeed that's why he has come, for you see he is an American who thinks a lot of such old things." "Well, it is beautiful, isn't it, Father ?" she said.

"Even I felt that it would be easy to learn in that big old room with a roof like that of a church." An idea struck him.
"Would you like to go to school there, Isobel ?" "I think so, Father, as I must go to school somewhere and I hate those horrible governesses." "Well," he replied, "you couldn't throw inkpots at the holy Knight, as you did at Miss Hook.

Lord! what a rage she was in," he added with a chuckle.

"I had to pay her L5 for a new dress.