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Show GlltllRose antl Sfl~>er "Some do-the Ouffy ones, always." "Who, for instance, are the Ouffy ones?" "Aunt Francesca for one and Isabel for another." "How long is the kid going to stay?" "Until she gets ready to go home, I suppose." "I thought she had no home." "She hasn't. Poor Isabel is a martyr to the Cause of Woman.11 "How so?" "Her mother is Emancipated, with a large E, and has no time for trifles like a daughter. She devotes herself to what she calls the Higher World Service." "So Isabel is stranded, on a desert island." "Yes, except for us." 11 How good you are!" he exclaimed, with honest admiration. "It was Aunt Francesca," returned Rose, flushing slightly. "I had nothing to do with it. She took me from a desert island, too." "Is Isabel emancipated?" "Not in the sense that her mother is." u I don't see but what she is free." "She is. She can do exactly as she pleases and there is no one to say her nay." "I thought all women did as they please." "They do, in the sense that we all do as we please. If you make a sacrifice, you do it because you can get more pleasure out of making it than you would otherwise." "'ttbe !l!ear 's at tbe Spring" "You've been reading Spencer." " I plead guilty," she laughed. "If it's true," he went on, after a moment's pause, u a genuine New England conscience must be an unholy joy to its proud possessor." "It's unholy at all events. One lump, or two?" she asked, as the coffee was brought in. "Two, please." It seemed very pleasant to Allison to sit there in the warm, sunny room, with Rose opposite him, pouring his coffee. There was an air of cosiness and domestic peace about it hitherto outside his experience. For the first time he was conscious of the peculiar graciousness and sense of home that only a homeloving woman may give to a house. "I like this," he said, as he took the steaming cup. "I 'd like to do it often." "We'd like to have you," she returned, hospitably. "I thought you all had breakfast together at some fixed hour, and early at that." "How little you know Aunt Francesca! You can have breakfast in this house in any room you choose. at any hour before noon, all the year round. Sometimes we're all together, sometimes only two. Usually, however I 'm alone, as I seem to get up a little earlier than the others." "I think I 'II drop in occasionally, then. It looks as if there'd always be somebody to Ill ~rtbe ¢otru. llups |