Your grandmother ?" "Was never better in her life.

Godmother dear, so many things have happened that I do not know where to begin." "Begin somewhere," she said, after one quick look at me, and led the way into the little room where we usually had our meals together.

The fire was lit and the table set for breakfast, and the room looked very pleasant.

"Dido is not with you," she said, closing the door behind us.
"No," I returned.
"And how is that, Bawn?
How did she let you come alone ?" "As I came down the stairs in the dusk of the morning she lay on the mat outside Uncle Luke's door, and when I called to her to come she wagged her old tail and would not come.

For the first time she would not follow me.