g in the wood that afternoon or
not, at any rate one of little Una's wishes came true, as we shall see.

CHAPTER V.

HAPPY DAYS.

Nearly every day, after that first meeting, the children played with
Una in the wood and joined her in the glen.

"The glen's nicer now it's Una's than when it was ours," said Dan one
day, as he sat munching one of the nice little sugar cakes which Marie
had made for them that morning.

"It wasn't ever ours really," said Norah.

"Well, anyway, it's Una's now, and it's much nicer," said Dan, looking
gravely into the basket Una held out to him, and choosing a round, pink
cake with a cherry in the middle.

Then one day something still nicer came to pass. The foreign gentleman
came to call on Mr. Carew, to ask if he would allow his children to
come every day and have lessons with his little girl.

The children were delighted when they heard of this. They had met the
foreign gentleman in the lane as they were coming home from a walk with
Rose, and they had wondered whether he had been to see their father.

"I hope he has not been to say we mustn't go and play with Una in the
glen any more," Dan had said; but they had no idea what the foreign
gentleman's visit had really been about until their father told them
the next morning, after breakfast.

Mr. and Mrs. Carew had needed a little time in which to think about and
talk over Monsieur Gen's proposal, and they did not want the children
to know anything about it until all was settled.

For the last year--ever since Mary and Ruth had gone to school, and
since Miss Rice, the governess who had been with them for over six
years, had got married--the younger children had only had lessons when
their mother or father could find time to teach them.

The school fees of the four elder children came to so large a sum of
money that the vicar could not afford to have a governess at home for
Norah and Tom and Dan; and as both Mr. and Mrs. Carew led very busy
lives, lessons had sometimes to be put on one side altogether, and the
children were beginning to forget a great deal which they had learned a
year ago with Miss Rice.

The foreign gentleman's offer, therefore, had been a great relief to
Mr. and Mrs. Carew, and the children were delighted at the idea of
going to the Grange every day to do their lessons with Una.

"And we shall be able to tell Una more about the Bible now, shan't we,
father?" said Norah. "She wants to know such a lot m