About the front yard Kenelm Parker was moving, rake in hand.

In the kitchen Imogene, the girl from the Orphans' Home in Boston, who had been engaged to act as "hired help," was arranging the new pots and pans on the closet shelf and singing "Showers of Blessings" cheerfully if not tunefully.
Yes, the old "Cap'n Abner place" was rejuvenated and transformed and on the following Monday it would be the "Cap'n Abner place" no longer: it would then become the "High Cliff House" and open its doors to hoped-for boarders, either of the "summer" or "all-the-year" variety.
The name had been Emily Howes' choice.

She and Mrs.Barnes had carried on a lengthy and voluminous correspondence and the selection of a name had been left to Emily.

To her also had been intrusted the selection of wallpapers, furniture and the few pictures which Thankful had felt able to afford.

These were but few, for the cost of repairing and refitting had been much larger than the original estimate.