The girls went through the old-fashioned garden with its flower-beds outlined with box, in which the earlier flowers were at their prime, to the arbor.

It was a pretty old structure, covered with the shaggy arms of an old grape-vine whose gold-green leaves were just uncurling.

Lucy placed the bowl of candy on the end of the bench which ran round the interior, and, to Rose's surprise, seated herself at a distance from it, and motioned Rose to sit beside her, without offering her any candy.

Lucy leaned against Rose and looked up at her.

She looked young and piteous and confiding.