haste of her sister in the next parish.

Six months passed, and Zora wondered what had become of them. Only a few
visits to London, where she had consorted somewhat gaily with Emmy's
acquaintances, had marked their flight, and the gentle fingers of Nunsmere
had graduated the reawakening of her nostalgia for the great world. She
spoke now and then of visiting Japan and America and South Africa, somewhat
to her mother's consternation; but no irresistible force drove her thither.
She found contentment in procrastination.

It had also been a mild amusement to settle Septimus Dix, after his
recovery, in a little house facing the common. He had to inhabit some
portion of this planet, and as he had no choice of spot save Hackney Downs,
which Wiggleswick suggested, Zora waved her hand to the tenantless house
and told him to take it. As there was an outhouse at the end of the garden
which he could use as a workshop, his principal desideratum in a residence,
he obeyed her readily. She then bought his furniture, plate, and linen,
and a complicated kitchen battery over whose uses Wiggleswick scratched a
bewildered head.

"A saucepan I know, and a frying-pan I know, but what you're to put in
those things with holes in them fairly licks me."

"Perhaps we might grow geraniums in them," said Septimus brightly, alter a
fit of musing.

"If you do," said Zora, "I'll put a female cook in charge of you both, and
wash my hands of you."

Whereupon she explained the uses of a cullender, and gave Wiggleswick to