As soon as she was out of hearing Margaret entered her sister's room, and on noticing Carrie's flushed cheek and red eyes, inquired the cause.

Immediately Kate told her what Lenora had said, but instead of weeping, as Carrie had done, she betrayed no emotion whatever.
"Why, Maggie, ain't you sorry ?" asked Carrie.
"No, I am glad," returned Mag.

"I've seen all along that sooner or later father would make himself ridiculous, and I'd rather he'd marry forty women from the East, than one woman not far from here whom I know." All that afternoon Mag tripped with unwonted gaiety about the house.

A weight was lifted from her heart, for in her estimation any one whom her father would marry was preferable to Mrs.Carter.
* * * * * Oh, how the widow scolded the daughter, and how the daughter laughed at the widow, when she related the particulars of her call.
"Lenora, what could have possessed you to tell such a lie ?" said Mrs.
Carter.
"Not so fast, mother mine," answered Lenora.

"'Twasn't a lie.