Back to the Land Easter fell late, so Winona spent the lovely early part of May at her own home.

After so many weeks of town it was delightful to be once more in the country.

She worked with enthusiasm in the garden, mowed the lawn, and with Letty and Mamie's help began to put up an arbor, over which she hoped to persuade a crimson rambler to ramble successfully.

In the house she tried her hand at scones and cakes, entirely to the children's satisfaction, if not altogether to her own; she enjoyed experiments in cooking, for she had longed to join the Domestic Science class at school, and had felt aggrieved when Miss Bishop decided that her time-table was full enough without it.

She found her mother looking delicate and worried.