"I wish to mercy neither of you had ever gone there." Rose answered by a low cough, which her mother did not hear, or at least did not notice.

Jenny, who loved the country and the country people, was not much pleased with her mother's plan.

But for once Mrs.
Lincoln was determined, and after stealing one more sled-ride down the long hill, and bidding farewell to the old desk in the school-house, sacred for the name carved three years before with Billy Bender's jack-knife, Jenny went back with her mother to Boston, leaving Rose to droop and fade in the hot, unwholesome atmosphere of Miss Hinton's school-room.
Not long after Jenny's return to the city, she wrote to Mary an amusing account of her mother's reason for removing her from Chicopee.
"But on the whole, I am glad to be at home," said she, "for I see Billy Bender almost every day.

I first met him coming down Washington Street, and he walked with me clear to our gate.

Ida Selden had a party last week, and owing to George Moreland's influence, Billy was there.