The smaller room near it is to be the morning-room." "But you will not leave me alone in my study!" observed Malcolm in an alarmed voice.

"Your writing-table must be there too, Elizabeth.

Do you think I could bear you out of my sight ?" Elizabeth laughed and blushed, and called him a foolish, jealous boy; but in her heart she loved to think that she was the delight of his eyes, and that every day she grew dearer to him.
It was the evening before the wedding, and a quiet little house-party had assembled at the Wood House--Mrs.Herrick and Anna, Colonel and Mrs.Godfrey; and Malcolm, who had taken up his quarters at the "King's Arms," had joined them at dinner.

The wedding was to be at an early hour the next morning, and no other guests were to be invited.

Colonel Godfrey would give the bride away, and the vicar and Mr.Carlyon would perform the ceremony between them.