She is always thinking of some one else, it seems to me." "Well, I am glad to have seen her," added Rose, in a more serious tone than was usual to her.

"She and grandmamma are of a different order of beings from the rest of the world.

I don't wonder you and Katy always were so good; you ought to be with such a Cousin Helen." "I don't think we were as good as you make us out, but Cousin Helen has really been one of the strong influences of our lives.

She was the making of Katy, when she had that long illness; and Katy has made the rest of us." Little Rose from the first moment became the delight of the household, and especially of Amy Ashe, who could not do enough for her, and took her off her mother's hands so entirely that Rose complained that she seemed to have lost her child as well as her husband.

She was a sedate little maiden, and wonderfully wise for her years.