letter from Mrs. Ashe, and I hope you will permit me to offer
you my most sincere congratulations and good wishes. I recollect
meeting Lieutenant Worthington when he was here two years ago,
and liking him very much. One is always glad in a foreign land
to be able to show so good a specimen of one's young countrymen
as he affords,--not that England need be counted as a foreign
country by any American, and least of all by myself, who have
found it a true home for so many years.

As a little souvenir of our week of sight-seeing together, of
which I retain most agreeable remembrances, I have sent you by
my friends the Sawyers, who sail for America shortly, a copy of
Hare's "Walks in London," which a young _protégée_ of mine has
for the past year been illustrating with photographs of the many
curious old buildings described. You took so much interest in
them while here that I hope you may like to see them again. Will
you please accept with it my most cordial wishes for your
future, and believe me


Very faithfully your friend,
ALLEN BEACH.

"What a nice letter!" said Clover.

"Isn't it?" replied Katy, with shining eyes, "what a thing it is to be a
gentleman, and to know how to say and do things in the right way! I am so
surprised and pleased that Mr. Beach should remember me. I never supposed
he would, he sees so many people in London all the time, and it is quite a
long time since we were there, nearly two years. Was your letter from Miss