I did not want her to leave before I got back." Dora raised her sunbonnet toward him.

Miriam's steps were heard approaching.
"You might have felt sure," she said, "that she would not have gone without seeing you again.

You have been so kind and good to her that she would not think of doing that." Then, as Miriam was very near, she approached the wagon.

"Did you get the snowflake flour, as I told you ?" she asked.

"Yes, I see you did, and I am glad you listened to my advice, and bought only a bag of it, for you know you may not like it." "If it is the flour you use, I know we shall like it," said Ralph; "but still I am bound to follow your advice." "You would better follow me, now," said Miriam, who had taken some parcels from the wagon, "and bring that bag into the pantry.