said severely.

"But I want to know," said this persistent young man, wondering at
himself.

"Well," said Winsome, glancing up with mischief in her eye, "I
suppose because I am a very lazy sort of person, and dark window-
blinds keep out the light."

"But why are they curled up at the end?" asked unblushingly the
author of the remarks upon Eve formerly quoted.

"It is time that you went up and saw my grandmother!" said
Winsome, with great composure.

"Juist what I was on the point o' remarkin' mysel'!" said Meg
Kissock.





CHAPTER VII.

CONCERNING TAKING EXERCISE.


Winsome and Ralph walked silently and composedly side by side up
the loaning under the elder-trees, over the brook at the watering-
place to which in her hoydenish girlhood Winsome had often ridden