Er best Sunday clothes, and her
manner was formal for the first few minutes;
it was evident that she felt we
were meeting under unusual circumstances, and that, although
we had often
met before on the friendliest terms, our having asked her to make this excursion in public
required a different
sort of behavior at her hands, and a due amount of ceremony
and propriety.
But this state of things did not last long, as she soon made a remark
at which Kate and I laughed
so heartily in lighthouse-acquaintance fashion, that sh