"And a boat, Uncle Harry?"
"Yes, and a nice boat, and a new rocking-horse."
The children clapped their hands and shouted with delight; they thought their elders had surely gone mad, and that the Infant Millenium had come.
"And a new dolly for me?" cried the eldest girl.
"Yes! and a doll's house too, with lots of furniture," immediately responded the evidently insane uncle.
But, at last, the nurse, a worthy female, who alone in the establishment had not altogether lost her head, thought fit to come down and intervene, and she marched the reluctant youngsters off.
Mrs. White had to attend to her household cares, so the lovers were again left alone. They had somewhat settled down to their new relations by this time, so they sat side by side and talked over the vague bright future before them. They arranged where they would live and so on, and formed all manner of plans, as is the way of young people in their situation.
"Why, I feel quite like an old married woman already," said Mary at last, with a smile.
"You see we know each other pretty well by this time—we are not strangers to each other," he replied.
"No, Harry! but I can hardly realize all this yet. Poor Mrs. King! what will become of her?" she exclaimed suddenly, as the recent events flashed across her mind.