in readiness. Thursday, does your school-work end? then we
will go Saturday. You will want one day perhaps, besides, they
say Friday is unlucky. I never go a journey on Friday."

"I would as lieve go Friday as any day," I said.

"Oh, well - Saturday will be soon enough; and now good-bye, my
dear; you to your work and I to mine. You are beautiful, my
dear Daisy!" she added, kissing me.

I wondered if it was true. If it was, I was glad, for
Thorold's sake. I knew it would be a pleasure to him. And to
my father and mother also; but that brought other thoughts,
and I went off to my studies.


CHAPTER II.

AT THE RENDEZVOUS.


The examination was over and school ended for me, before I had
one half hour to spare to go to see Miss Cardigan. The
examination had passed as I could have wished it might; all
had gone well; and I could afford to put by that whole train
of thought, even as I put up my school-books and stowed them
away; being things that I should not immediately want again.
Some time would pass, it was likely, before I would need to
refresh my memory with mathematics or philosophy. My music was
another matter, and I kept that out.