"KEEP HER TO HELP YOU" It was about ten o'clock the next morning when Miss Panney drove over to Cobhurst in her phaeton.

She did not go up to the house, but tied her roan mare behind a clump of locust trees and bushes, where the animal might stand in peace and shade.

Then she walked around the house, and hearing the clatter of crockery in the basement, she looked down through a kitchen window, and saw Mike washing the breakfast dishes.
Going on toward the back of the house, she heard voices and laughter over in the garden.

Behind a tangled mass of raspberries, she saw a pink sunbonnet and a straw hat with daisies in it.

She knew, then, that Dora and Miriam were picking berries, and then her eyes and ears began to search for Ralph.
She went up on the back piazza and looked over toward the barn, which appeared to be closed, and around and about the house, but saw nothing of the young man.