violet froth. As she came starry-eyed through the gardens, the

impudent wind trifling with her hair, I protest she might have been

some lady of Oberon's court stolen out of Elfland to bedevil us poor

mortals, with only a moonbeam for the changeable heart of her, and

for raiment a violet shadow spirited from the under side of some big,

fleecy cloud.

They came presently through a trim, yew-hedged walkway to a

summer-house covered with vines, into which Margaret peeped and

declined to enter, on the ground that it was entirely too chilly

and gloomy and