BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN
ADVENTURES OF ELIZABETH IN RÜGEN
FRAÜLEIN SCHMIDT AND MR. ANSTRUTHER
PRINCESS PRISCILLA'S FORTNIGHT
THE SOLITARY SUMMER
THE CARAVANERS


[CONTENTS].


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

["Tell me, Little One," he said when she rejoined him, "will you marry me?"] Frontispiece
["Then why," she asked, with the courage of curiosity, "are you a pastor?"]
["Will you not, Ingeborg," said Herr Dremmel, calling her for the first time by her name, "cut the cake?"]
["But—father, I've been doing it too"]
[He could no longer walk around his own garden without meeting an interlaced couple]
["You are married to her?" asked the elder Frau Dremmel, turning her pebble eyes slowly from one to the other]
[Especially her gaze lingered on her feet. Becoming aware of this, Ingeborg tried to hide them]
["But these are very wonderful," she said, taking up the sketches. "I wish I were really like that."]


PART I