"Not very."
"Sit down here beside me, and let me tell you why the happy looks have gone for ever."
"For ever! Oh! I'll not believe that."
"You'll never guess what I am going to tell you?"
"Sidney and you have quarrelled."
"Yes—no—not exactly quarrelled—what a girl you are to guess things! Sidney and I, by mutual consent, have cancelled our engagement."
"I am sorry," said Mattie, after a moment's silence; "sorry, not that the engagement has been broken for awhile, for it will be renewed again—"
"Never!—never!"
"But that any difference should have arisen between you two. As for not making it up again," said Mattie, cheerfully, "oh! we can't believe that, we two who understand Sidney Hinchford so well."
"There will never be an engagement between him and me again," said Harriet; "over for once and all, Mattie."