Lieutenant Logan might be a general some day, and it would be nice to have a great man in the family.

I wish mamma and Jack and Holland could see what a good time we are having." It did not occur to Mary that, curled up in a big chair in the corner, she was taking no more active share in the good times than the portraits on the wall.

Her eager smile and the alert happy look in her eyes showed that she was all a-tingle with the unusual pleasure the evening was affording her.

She laughed and looked and listened, sure that the scene she was enjoying was as good as a play.

She had never seen a play, it is true; but she had read of them, and of player folk, until she knew she was fitted to judge of such things.
It was a pleasure just to watch the gleam of the soft candle-light on Kitty's red ribbons, or on the string of gold beads around Allison's white throat.