" I wish you would have some supper, and then go and get a good night's rest, Cissy," he says, practically. "I shall want to have you strong and well, and able to see about things with me to-mor row, down at your own little place, you know." " Is it a very little place ?" she asks. " Well, it's not a mansion, you know," I he says lightly ; ".originally it was a little 1 farm cottage, but it's been added to, and improved into what T think you'll call a very pretty picturesque little place." She looks gloomily into space for a few moments, then she says discontentedly, " Won't it be very lonely for me, if you're going away I" " There are some very nice people living about here, and you'll soon know them."' " But is there no town or large village near ?" ''There's a very good market town about seven miles from here." "Seven miles !" she holds her hands up in horror ; "how am I to do my shop ping?" ' ' My dear Cissy, you surely didn't come expecting to find the Haymarket stores and Leaclenhall-market in the heart of the Wicklow mountains, did you ?" he says good-naturedly. Then he adds, "Let your mind be at rest though, Cissy, you can always have the car from here to go and do your shopping." " I never like driving in a borrowed vehicle," she says. " Then I'll see about getting you one of your own." " And who is to drive me ? it's nonsense talking about giving me a car when I shall have no one to drive me, Harry," she says pettishly. " Yoii can always have one of the men from the stables here." " Thank you ; but I dislike borrowed servants as much as I do borrowed car riages. 