TWO LETTERS NANCY ELLEN and Robert were sitting on the side porch, not seeming in the least sleepy, when Kate entered the house.

As she stepped out to them, she found them laughing mysteriously.
"Take this chair, Kate," said Nancy Ellen.

"Come on, Robert, let's go stand under the maple tree and let her see whether she can see us." "If you're going to rehearse any momentous moment of your existence," said Kate, "I shouldn't think of even being on the porch.

I shall keep discreetly in the house, even going at once to bed.

Good-night! Pleasant dreams!" "Now we've made her angry," said Robert.
"I think there WAS 'a little touch of asperity,' as Agatha would say, in that," said Nancy Ellen, "but Kate has a good heart.