Tomorrow I will go over to the White Cottage and talk to them both.

I shall tell David that he has no right to let his father work so hard during his holiday." "Tell him we know such a nice woman, Die," and Dinah promised that she would do her very best.

But Elizabeth had not wholly eased her mind; she stood looking at her sister rather doubtfully, and then she said abruptly-- "Die, there is something I want to ask you.

You heard from Douglas Fraser this morning, did you not ?" Then a faint colour came to Dinah's pale cheeks.
"Were you afraid to ask me that before, my dear ?" she said with a smile.

"But it was my fault; I ought to have told you--this sort of question is not easy even for a sister to ask.