A Daughter of Fife

"Then I will have the plans drawn, and estimates made, and you shall go to

your own home, Mary, as soon as possible. The people are looking forward

to your return. You will be happier among them. We can return to Glasgow

at once; I shall be very glad to do so; and you can go to Drumloch in the

spring."

The proposal pleased Mary. She wanted to get away from Meriton. She did

not like being in the same house with those numerous similitudes of the

Fife girl. The garden in which Allan had made her that pretence of an

offer, the parlor in which she had given way to such a petulant,

disagreeable temper, were full of mortifying remembrances. She wanted to

turn over a new leaf of life, to cross the past one, and to cancel forever

the hopes there credited.