The former, however, had wisely kept from the girl the matter on which she had written to the Squire, and the suspicion she had herself entertained.
"It is very dull without you both," Millicent said.

"I was telling Mrs.
Cunningham that I thought it would be a good thing, when you got back, for us two to take a run up to town for a week, just to let you see how dull the place is when two of us are away.

You are looking quite serious, uncle.

Is anything the matter ?" "Happily nothing is the matter with us, dear, but we have had an adventure, and not a very pleasant one." "What was it ?" the girl asked.
"If you examine my hat closely, Millicent, it will tell you." The girl took up the hat from a chair on which he had put it, and brought it to the light.

"There are two holes in it," she said.