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He looked keenly at Katherine, and smiled. "Yes, Miss Liddell ought to taste the incomparable delights of the season by all means. Life is incomplete without it." "I should like to experience it certainly, for once, but I shall be more in the mood for such excitements next year perhaps," returned Katherine, gravely. "Oh, my dear Katie, never put things off! At all events, be presented.
Katherine could not help laughing at the little monkey's version of the incident. "Cecil, Cecil, you must learn to tell the truth " she was beginning, when the door was opened, and a small, slight lady in black silk, with a profusion of delicate gray ribbons, jet trimming, and foamy white tulle ruching, stood in the doorway.
Oh-Pshaw, who had been sent after a suit of Tiny's that afternoon, had apparently made a pretty thorough job of it. "Somebody must be playing a joke on you," Katherine remarked tranquilly, although she was conscious of the lump that Tiny's one remaining stocking made under her middy. "Never mind. Tiny, I'll go out and borrow some things for you to wear."
Selincourt was expected in Keewatin. "If I am alive and well when the summer comes there will be no need for you to do anything; I shall be able to face the consequences of my own wrong-doing. But if not, I leave it to you to do the very best you can. You can't make up for all the man may have had to suffer, but at least you can tell him that I was sorry." Katherine shuddered.
"They are not lost!" exclaimed Katherine, with startling energy, leaving her seat, and walking across the room to join Cecilia, with an air that seemed to elevate her little figure to the height of her cousin.
A fortnight after the interview just described, Katherine was thoroughly settled with Mrs. Needham. Although she justly considered herself most fortunate in finding a home so easily, with so pleasant and kindly a patroness, she would have been more or less than human had she not felt the change which had befallen her. Mrs.
She and Ned were as good friends as ever, but he was getting acquainted in Riverton now and wasn't so dependent on her society, etc. Katherine sighed and went on a fern hunt with Professor Keith. It was getting near the end of her vacation and she had only two weeks more. They were sitting down to rest on the side of the road when she mentioned this fact inconsequently.
But the Crown Prince died before the execution of the sentence. The same evening, about eight o'clock, the Czar entered his country-house and sought Katherine. "The old has passed away," he said. "Now we will begin the new you and I and our children." The Czarina asked no questions, for she understood.
Farnsworth, and Sadie was once more her serene and gracious self and looking forward eagerly to the day of their flitting to the sea. Katherine, on the other hand, was feeling an unaccountable reluctance to leaving, even with the expectation of returning in September, and in spite of her longing for both father and mother.
But before she could find suitable words to reply, Charlie came running to meet them, jumping up to kiss his aunt first, and cried; "Mr. De Burgh has come. I saw him driving up to the hotel outside the omlibus." "The omnibus!" repeated Mrs. Ormonde. "He would find no other conveyance from the train unless he ordered one previously," said Katherine, laughing. "Dear me!
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