hat do you think?" cried Rose, bursting into the school-room. "Everard is coming home."
"Oh, is he? I'm so glad," returned Alice.
"Yes; mamma had a letter to-day. He is better, and is coming home for change of air and mamma's good nursing. It was not Everard who wrote the letter, but the doctor, who is coming with him as far as Markham, and p