the girls at this amazing change of front in the
difficult Miss Ramsay was beyond all expression. Her intonation was
slightly English, her manner charming. They had not dreamed that she
could be so attractive. And so fresh and pretty was she that she was a
real delight to look upon.

"What delightful little cottages these are!" she went on. "They look so
attractive from the outside. I'm sure they must be equally so from the
inside. We have nothing quite on this style in England, where I came
from."

"Wouldn't you like to go through ours?" asked Miss Marcia, hospitably.
"Leslie, take Miss Ramsay through. Perhaps she will be interested to see
the interior."

"Oh, I'll be delighted!" exclaimed Miss Ramsay, and rose to accompany
Leslie.

It did not take them long to make the round of Rest Haven. Rather to her
hostess's astonishment, the girl seemed more enthusiastic over Leslie's
room than any of the others and lingered there the longest, though it was
by no means the most attractive.

"What a wonderful view you have of the sea!" she said. And then she
strolled to the other window and looked out, long and curiously. "That's
an interesting little cottage next door," she remarked presently. "Is
it--is it just like this one?"

"Why no. It's larger and differently arranged and furnished more
elaborately, too, I--I believe," faltered Leslie, hoping she had not
appeared to know too much about it.

"I wonder if we could go through it?" went on the visitor. "I--I just
love to see what these little seashore places look like. They're so
different from ours."

"Oh, I hardly think so!" cried Leslie. "You see it's all locked up for
the winter, and Mrs. Danforth, who owns it, has the key."

The girl looked at her intently. "And there's no other way, I suppose,
beside the front door?"

"How should I know?" countered Leslie, suddenly on her guard. "If there
_were_ would it be right to try it, do you think? Wouldn't it be too much
like trespassing?"

"Oh, of course!" laughed Miss Ramsay. "I only meant that it would be fun
to look it over, if there were any proper way of doing so. You see,
Grandfather and I might be here another summer and I'd just love to rent
a little cottage like either one of these two."

She turned away from the window and they sauntered out of the room and
back to the veranda.

"And now that you've seen Leslie's bungalow, you must run over and see
ours, especially as it was at ours you at first inten