I wish I knew when I would cook another supper for Jem but such things are hidden from our eyes." Jem Blythe and Jerry Meredith left next morning.

It was a dull day, threatening rain, and the clouds lay in heavy grey rolls over the sky; but almost everybody in the Glen and Four Winds and Harbour Head and Upper Glen and over-harbour--except Whiskers-on-the-moon--was there to see them off.

The Blythe family and the Meredith family were all smiling.

Even Susan, as Providence did ordain, wore a smile, though the effect was somewhat more painful than tears would have been.

Faith and Nan were very pale and very gallant.