Then came the voice of the girl in reply: "Oh, Harry, it is you who
are so far above me." Then I was sure that they kissed each other.

I reflected as I stole softly away, lest they should discover me and
be ashamed, that, after all, it was only love which could set people
upon immeasurable heights in each other's eyes, and stimulate them to
real improvement and to live up to each other's ideals.



IV

THEY TAKE A FARM


I had wondered a little, after Mrs. Jameson's frantic appeal to me to
secure another boarding-place for her, that she seemed to settle down
so contentedly at Caroline Liscom's. She said nothing more about her
dissatisfaction, if she felt any. However, I fancy that Mrs. Jameson
is one to always conceal her distaste for the inevitable, and
she must have known that she could not have secured another
boarding-place in Linnville. As for Caroline Liscom, her mouth is
always closed upon her own affairs until they have become matters of
history. She never said a word to me about the Jamesons until they
had ceased to be her boarders, which was during the first week in
August. My sister-in-law, Louisa Field, came home one afternoon with
the news. She had been over to Mrs. Gregg's to get her receipt for
blackberry jam, and had heard it there. Mrs. Gregg always knew about
the happenings in our village before they fairly gathered form on the