"Oh, no! it's a good road, I guess: we'd be forever getting home that way."
"But you know I can't see as well as you can. I might get a header."
"I'll go ahead, then, and lead the way, and you follow in my track."
"Shall I get you some pilot-bread?" asked the girl. "I know I could let you have that; but my aunt don't like to cook very well, and I don't quite dare to get any thing out of the pantry."
"Yes, let's have some, and some water," replied Felix: "I'm most starved to death. If there's any thing to pay, I'll settle with your uncle when I come over here again."
"Oh! my uncle won't take any thing: he's a real nice man. I wish he was here, and he'd give you a good supper, and take you to your cottage. But my aunt was in town visiting to-day, and he's gone in to bring her home. I don't believe he'll get back before nine."
After the girl had disappeared, Johnny said, "Isn't it too bad she has to live in such a lonely place, where there are no other young folks?"
"Yes," replied Felix: "I hope she'll get a good place at one of the cottages."
"So do I: then we could get acquainted with her, and we would introduce her to Julia."
"Oh, no! we couldn't. She would only be a nurse-girl, and we couldn't associate with her; and a rich girl like Julia wouldn't be introduced to her, nor have any thing to do with her."