“She did,” replied the lady, folding up her work, “and I put an extinguisher at once upon the project.”

“You did?” said the vicar thoughtfully; “well, I daresay, my love, you were right.”


CHAPTER XX.
A SUNNY MORN.

“Ay, those were days when life had wings,

And flew—ah! flew so wild a height,

That like the lark that sunward springs,

I was giddy with too much light!”

Moore.