that?"

He drew out all that could be drawn: that she had come to take
charge of the school the autumn he had gone away; that she was
liked as a teacher, liked by the old people. She had taken great
interest in HIM, his mother said reproachfully, and the idea of his
studying for the ministry. She had often visited the house, had
been good to his father and to her. This was her first visit since
she had gotten back; she had been in town spending the holidays.

David had begun to go to see Gabriella within a week. At first he
went once a week--on Saturday nights. Soon he went twice a week--
Wednesdays and Saturdays invariably. On that last day at college,
when he had spoken out for himself, he had ended the student and
the youth; when he met her, it was the beginning of the man: and
the new reason of the man's happiness.

As he now returned home across the mile or more of country, having
satisfied himself as to the uninjured condition of the schoolhouse,
which had a great deal to do with Gabriella's remaining in that
neighborhood, he renewed his resolve to go to see her to-night,
though it was only Friday. Had not the storm upset all regular laws
and customs?

Happily, then, on reaching the stable, he fell to work upon his
plan of providing a shelter for the sheep.

David felt much more at home in the barn than at the house. For the
stock saw no change in him. Believer or unbeliever, rationalist,
evolutionist, he was still the same to them. Upon them, in reality,