I have seen her; but she met with an accident; she is all right, quite all right.

I will go up to the Grange again to-morrow, and come in to tell you what we have arranged." She had taken the child in her arms and was hugging and kissing it; then, seeing that Susie wanted to retreat, she gave her the child and returned to Reggie, who had been standing by the gate, his eyes fixed on them.

He drew a long breath as they turned away, and exclaimed, in a low voice:-- "I say! What an awfully pretty woman! Was that her baby?
She looked quite a girl." "Yes," said Celia, gravely.

"Susie is only a girl." "She must have been married very young," said Reggie, with, evident interest.

"What beautiful eyes! But, I say, why did she look so sad?
Isn't--isn't her husband good to her ?" Celia was silent for a moment, her eyes fixed on the ground, a faint colour in her cheeks.