IVFQuirkie, as a wooer of Miss Montgomery, and the dexterous manner in which he had been outwitted—she relaxed not merely into good humor, but into an unusual flow of high spirits and com placency. She felt herself compen sated in M'Quirkie-s humiliation Jor the disappointment and mortification he had caused her, and Jean was im

mediately admitted into higher favor than ever. Even towards James Dun canson Mrs. Renshaw experienced a re-awakening of kindly feeling; and Miss Montgomery also was thought of more favorably than formerly—though the lady of Whinnyside had too much pride to let these changes appear very markedly, as yet, in her words. With great glee, Jean wrote an ac count of all these matters to Robin Afleck, and enclosed in her letter the unfinished one of Miss Montgomery to Mr. Duncanson. 