Dr.Armstrong thinks we ought to leave town as soon as possible, so we are going to Whitby a week earlier." "Mother has cancelled a lot of her engagements," observed Anna, looking at her affectionately.

"I am so sorry to give her all this trouble." But Mrs.Herrick would not allow her to finish.
"Mothers are only too glad to take trouble for their children," she said kindly.

"Anna has been behaving badly, Malcolm; she fainted at church on Sunday, and had one of her worst sick headaches afterwards." There was unmistakable anxiety in Malcolm's eyes when he heard this, but Anna only laughed it off.

The church was hot, she said, any one might have fainted.

But the sea-breezes would soon set her up; they had beautiful rooms quite close to the sea, with a wide balcony where they could spend their evenings.
"I hope you will come down to us for a week or two," observed his mother presently.