"No, Quincy. What has taken place in our lives is truly wonderful. My
daily prayer is that these happy days may last."




CHAPTER II

A DAY WITH THE GOVERNOR


Governor Sawyer sat in the Executive Chamber at the State House. It
was eleven o'clock on the morning following the festivities at
Fernborough. Quincy and Alice had staid over night at the Hawkins'
House, and Ezekiel in the morning urged them strongly to wait a day
and see what great improvements he had made on the old farm which had
been so neglected during the last years of Mrs. Putnam's life. But
Quincy said his presence in Boston was imperative, that certain
matters required his attention, and so the earliest train brought him
and his wife to the city. Quincy left the carriage under the arch at
the State House.

Alice was driven to the well-known house on Mount Vernon Street, in
which Aunt Ella had lived so long, but which had lost much of its
cheerfulness, and all of its Bohemianism since that lady had gone to
England and become Lady Fernborough.

The Executive Chamber was a large room, and simply furnished with a
flat top desk of wine-red mahogany, a bookcase, and a few chairs. A
door to the left led to the office of the private secretary; the one