According to the wont of the servants of the respective households of the Parsonage and Ford Bank, the man asked if there was any answer.

It was only custom; for he had not been desired to do so.

Ellinor went to the window to read her letter; the man waiting all the time respectfully for her reply.

She went to the writing-table, and wrote: "It is all right--quite right.

I ought to have thought of it all last August.