I think you have got a beautiful place here for a farm, one of these days; but you ought to make your husband build you a better house.

He is as able to do it as my husband is to get me one, I have no doubt." Mary Erskine had no doubt either.

She did not say so however, but only replied that she liked her house very well.

The real reason why she liked it so much was one that Anne Sophia did not consider.

The reason was that it was her own.