will get us an invitation to visit somebody soon, and then I can eat all
I want.'"

The guests had listened very attentively to this recital, and none more
so than Grey, who leaned eagerly forward, with quivering lips and
moistened eyes, as he exclaimed:

"Poor little girl, how I wish she had some of my dinner! Why didn't you
bring her home with you, away from her wicked mother?"

Miss McPherson did not reply, for there dawned upon her suddenly a fear
lest she had talked too much, and her manner changed at once, while she
sank into an abstracted mood, and her eyes had in them a far-off look,
as if she were seeing the child who came to her upon the sands of
Aberystwyth and looked into her face with eyes she had never been able
to forget, and which she could now see so plainly, though the little
girl was thousands of miles away.

Dinner being over Hannah said it was time for her to go home, and Lucy
accordingly ordered the sleigh to be brought to the door.

"You will come to-morrow as early as possible," Hannah said to her
brother, who replied:

"Yes, immediately after breakfast, for I must go back to Boston on the
afternoon train, I have an engagement for Saturday."

"So soon?" Hannah said, in a tone of disappointment: "I hoped you would
stay longer; father will be so sorry; he has anticipated your visit so
much."