“Why Esther! I thought you considered the doctrine of change a great heresy!” and Mr. Churchill looked surprised.
“I have been thinking lately that we might make our lives too narrow, too self-satisfying. So if we get outside we may have our ideas broadened, and find something new to do, or if we are dissatisfied with our surroundings, we may come back quite content.”
“Do you want to go any where?”
“Not just now.”
Fan and Lucy had been talking over the picnic.
“Can’t we drive there in the afternoon?” she asked of her brother, “I should like to see a crowd of happy children.”
“Are you going, Winthrop?”
“I expect to be field marshal. Miss Endicott has engaged my services at an enormous salary. You will be able to tell me by a blue ribbon around my left arm, and a primrose in the lappel of my coat. I am to see that the rear guard is prompt at dinner.”
He looked at me very soberly, and the others glanced in the same direction. I could not help blushing to the roots of my hair, and exclaiming:
“Why Mr. Ogden!”