We'll likely have to content ourselves with a shabby little place on some street whereon live people whom to know is to be unknown, and make life inside compensate for the outside." Accordingly they went house-hunting, but to find just what they wanted proved even harder than Priscilla had feared.

Houses there were galore, furnished and unfurnished; but one was too big, another too small; this one too expensive, that one too far from Redmond.

Exams were on and over; the last week of the term came and still their "house o'dreams," as Anne called it, remained a castle in the air.
"We shall have to give up and wait till the fall, I suppose," said Priscilla wearily, as they rambled through the park on one of April's darling days of breeze and blue, when the harbor was creaming and shimmering beneath the pearl-hued mists floating over it.

"We may find some shack to shelter us then; and if not, boardinghouses we shall have always with us." "I'm not going to worry about it just now, anyway, and spoil this lovely afternoon," said Anne, gazing around her with delight.

The fresh chill air was faintly charged with the aroma of pine balsam, and the sky above was crystal clear and blue--a great inverted cup of blessing.