"You're very downright and determined sometimes; and there isn't anything hardly that you wouldn't do if the spirit was on you.

I'm glad it's all right.

Dear me! dear me!" "Oh, I'm not quite so bad as you all make me out," said Irene, laughing.
"I don't think you are bad," answered Margaret, in kind deprecation, yet with a freedom of speech warranted by her years and attachment to Irene.

"But you go off in such strange ways--get so wrong-headed sometimes--that there's no counting on you." Then, growing more serious, she added-- "The fact is, Miss Irene, you keep me feeling kind of uneasy all the time.

I dreamed about you last night, and maybe that has helped to put me into a fluster now." "Dreamed about me!" said Irene, with a degree of interest in her manner.
"Yes.