Abby laughed, not ill pleased.

"I don't look special like angels," she said; "that is, if the pictures I've seen are correct.

Not much wings and curls and white robes about me, Maree.

And who ever heard of an angel in a check apurn, I want to know ?" But Marie was not to be turned aside.

It was well known, she said, that angels could not come to earth undisguised in these days.