Chapter 18 PALACES OR CHURCHES

"And if I leave the thing that lieth next,

To go and do the thing that is afar,

I take the very strength out of my deed."

-Macdonald.

Those were happy days that succeeded Vera's engagement. It had made her more womanly, or at least less childish; and the intercourse with Hubert Delrio became an increasing delight to her sisters, who had