When he realized from her greeting how she had felt the separation from her family, he had an idea that he at once propounded: "Kate, I have come to ask a favour of you," he said.
"Granted!" laughed Kate.

"Whatever can it be ?" "Just this! I want you to pack a few clothes, drive to Hartley with me and do what you can to straighten out the house, so there won't be such confusion when Nancy Ellen gets there." Kate stared at him in a happy daze.

"Oh, you blessed Robert Gray! What a Heavenly idea!" she cried.

"Of course it wouldn't be possible for me to fix Nancy Ellen's house the way she would, but I could put everything where it belonged, I could arrange well enough, and I could have a supper ready, so that you could come straight home." "Then you will do it ?" he asked.
"Do it ?" cried Kate.

"Do it! Why, I would be willing to pay you for the chance to do it.