family worship.

"We must begin to-morrow," said Raymond. "We have got a chaplain
now."

Julius, however, on entering excused himself, saying that after
Sunday he should be at Matins at nine o'clock; whereupon Anne looked
at him in mute astonishment.

Raymond, feeling that he ought to cultivate the solitary sister-in-
law, began asking about Miles; but unlike the typical colonist, she
was very silent, and her replies were monosyllabic, till Rosamond
created a diversion by talking to Frank; and then Raymond elicited
that Glen Fraser was far up the country--King Williamstown nearer
than any other town. They had sent thither for a doctor for Miles,
and he stayed one night, but said that mother's treatment was quite
right; and as it was thirty miles off he did not come again. Thirty
miles! what sort of roads? Not bad for wagons. It only took two
days to get there if the river was not in flood. Had she not been
married there? Yes, they all rode in thither for the purpose. Was
it the nearest church, then? There was one only nine miles off, to
which papa went when there was service--one Sunday in three, "for he
is an Episcopalian, you know."

"And not your mother?" asked Cecil.

"I don't think she was at home," said Anne.

"Then had you a Presbyterian Kirk?" asked Cecil, remembering that in
Scotland gentle blood and Anglicanism did not go together as