Miss Janet could not be induced to go to that Vanity Fair, as she called it; and if proper arrangements for her comfort could not be made, the project would have to be given up.

After many proposals, each one having an unanswerable difficulty, the old lady returned from town one day, with a very satisfied countenance, having persuaded Mrs.Williams, a widow, and her daughter, to pass the winter at Exeter with her.

Mrs.Williams was a much valued friend of the Weston family, and as no objection could be found to this arrangement, the affair was settled.

Alice, although the cause of the move, was the only person who was indifferent on the subject.

Ellen Graham, young and gay as she was, would like to have entered into any excitement that would make her forget the past.