"Do you feel refreshed, dear ?" she asked, when Lucina had finished her tumbler of currant-jelly water.
"Yes, thank you, Aunt Camilla." "I fear you were not strong enough to venture out in such heat, glad as I am to see you, dear.

Had you not better let 'Liza bring you a pillow, and then you can lie down on the sofa and perhaps have a little nap ?" "No, thank you, Aunt Camilla, I am not sleepy.

I am quite well.

I am going to sit by the window and read." With that Lucina rose, got a book bound in red and gold from the stately mahogany table, and seated herself by the one window whose shutters were not tightly closed.

It was a north window, and only one leaf of the upper half of the shutter was open.