But Mistress Selwyn says to me once, says she, laughing in that pretty way of hers, 'I felt dreadful when John and I quarrelled, but underneath it all I was very happy because I had such a nice husband to quarrel with and make it up with.' Then they moved to Charlottetown, and Ned Russell bought this house and brought his bride here.

They were a gay young pair, as I remember them.

Miss Elizabeth Russell was Alec's sister.

She came to live with them a year or so later, and she was a creature of mirth, too.

The walls of this house must be sorter SOAKED with laughing and good times.