But the day was so delightful that Rose begged her to stroll in the Pleasaunce for half an hour and watch for their mother's return.

She consented in an absent way, and presently began to walk very fast, unconscious of her companion.

Rose laid a hand upon her playfully to moderate her, and found her skin burning.
"Why, what is the matter ?" said she, anxiously.
"Nothing, nothing," was the sharp reply.
"There's a fretful tone; and how excited you look, and feel too.

Well, I thought you were unnaturally calm after such an event." "I only saw his back," said Josephine.

"Did not you see him ?" "See who?
Oh, that tiresome officer.