l me good-night.

Sally, it _is_ really funny, but I have to keep assuring and
reminding myself that it is.

JANE.

_Morning,
At Three Meadows._

SALLY, MY DEAR,

Once again I crept up a river of mother-of-pearl in the gauzy dawn to
this island sanctuary. The Deacon met us, amazed at our number, and
led us to the silver gray house just beyond theirs on a little,
lifting hill, where "Angerleek" will "do for us."

Morning brought counsel. While my husband (carelessly said--just like
that!) while my husband looked after luggage I talked to Randal, sane
again, haggard, abased. "My dear boy," I said, "_you_ aren't going
to be in the way at all! You'll look after yourself and be company
for Michael when he wants good man-talk. It's this demon-child.
If--_do_ you suppose you could look after her for me!"

He wrung my hand. "Count on me! If there's anything I can do, to
atone, to square myself--I'll be her nurse, her governess, her
jailer!"

Then to a meek _huerfanita_, feeding her menagerie, I made oration.
"Daughter of my soul, thou knowest thy presence is a joy of purest
ray serene, but this Randal creature, tagging ever at the heels of
my spouse----"

"Star of my heart," she said, grinding her teeth, "he is a pig and
the son of a pig! Have no fear, _Madrecita_, I will herd him, like
cattle, away from thy sight." She kissed up to God.

JANE.

_The Silver Gray House,
On the Lifting Hill,
Three Meadows._

I have ceased to reckon time by calendars, Sally dearest, but I think
we have been here, Michael Daragh and I, seven or ten days.

Oh, yes, the others are still here,--at least, they are on the
island, but we never see them. They come and go like Brownies, like
elves, like the "Little People" of Michael's land, bringing our
meals and our mail, vanishing silently.... They stand between us and
the village and the Deacon and the world. They are our shields and
barriers; our sure defense; our shock absorbers. I shouldn't _think_
of ever going on a honeymoon without them. We have signed them up
for all our anniversary excursions, and between whiles we'll loan
them to friends for wedding trips and rent them to a select
public,--there'll be miles of Waiting List as soon as they are
known!

Make your reservations early!

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