But he was much gratified by her manner.

"If Kit and her father are to be your guests there is little enough for me to do; when I spoke to you just now I had quite decided to take lodgings for them at Rotherwood." "Kit is my guest," replied Elizabeth obstinately.

"Now, will you come in, Mr.Herrick, and have luncheon with us ?" But Malcolm declined this; he would look in later in the day and pay his respects to Miss Templeton; and then he lifted his hat and turned away.

Elizabeth stood in the porch and watched him.

"He is a good man," she said softly, "and I like him--I like him very much;" but she sighed a little heavily as she turned away.
Meanwhile Malcolm was saying to himself in his whimsical way, "It is my destiny--is it not written in the book of fate?
The Parcae Sisters three have willed it so.