The plan of alternate Sundays was adopted.

It was but one instance of the "managing" quality which the girl possessed.

Isaiah declared that she wound all hands around her little finger, but even he seemed to enjoy the winding.
As she grew older Mary-'Gusta learned more and more concerning her uncles, their habits, their contrasting temperaments and their past history.

She learned a little of Hall and Company, the prosperous firm of which they had been partners, with Marcellus Hall, her stepfather, as the head.

Isaiah told her a little concerning the firm: "No bigger on Cape Cod," he declared.