Miss Bertha stopped. They were in her garden now, and for one minute she raised her face in silence to the open sky above her, then she bent down and kissed the earnest child by her side:
"Christina, my darling child, say those very words you have uttered to God in your morning and evening prayers. Say them over and over again to Him when troubles and doubts and fears crowd round you. Say to Him softly and reverently:
"'I know You love me; and if You think it is best for me, I won't be afraid!'"
Christina was awed by the solemnity in Miss Bertha's tone, and when she looked up at her, she saw tears were in her eyes.
She did not speak, but she could not forget the lesson taught, and though she was long in learning it, she remembered it to the end of her life.
[CHAPTER IV]
"THE UNITED KINGDOM"
"AND is he coming to-day? Really to-day? And will he be about as old as we are? How scrumptious!"
"His name is Puggy; and Blanche, mother's maid, says he's a terror!"
Christina's eyes were round as she gave Dawn this information.