How could he refuse to go when the vicar was waiting for him ?" "I thought a walk would do him good," returned Elizabeth demurely; "he was almost asleep when Mr.Charrington spoke to us.

A comfortable chair, and moon-light, and a German lullaby are soporific influences." "Nonsense, Betty," replied Dinah in her practical, downright way, "he was as wide-awake as I was; but," with a little sigh of sympathy, "he looked rather sad.

Are you sure he is quite happy, dear ?" "I expect he is quite as happy as he deserves to be," returned Elizabeth in rather a hard-hearted way; and then she went off, singing to herself in a low tone a line or two from her last song: "It may be in the Land above-- The Land beyond our ken; Yet we shall meet again, my love, Though none can answer when" And as Dinah stood listening in the moonlight her face looked like the face of a radiant infant.
"That is so true," she whispered, "and what does it matter--when!".