MR.

KEITH IS UNPRACTICAL, AND MRS.

YORKE GIVES HIM GOOD ADVICE The strolls in the budding woods and the glimpses shown her of a spirit somewhat different from any she had known were beginning to have their influence on Alice.

It flattered her and filled her with a certain content that the young school-teacher should like her so much; yet, knowing herself, it gave her a vague feeling that he was wanting in that quality of sound judgment which she recognized in some of her other admirers.

It rather frightened her to feel that she was on a pedestal; and often he soared away from her with his poetry and his fancies, and she was afraid that he would discover it and think she was a hypocrite.
Something that her mother had said remained in her mind.
"He knows so much, mamma," said Alice one day.