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Archie had not been altogether pleased with
the campaign, and was glad when at last he drove into the old park at
Stoneleigh and was warmly welcomed by Dorothy and Anthony, who had made
the place as comfortable as possible with the small means at their
command.


CHAPTER IV.
LITTLE BESSIE.

"Oh, Archie, isn't it a poky old place, and doesn't it smell of rats and
must?" Daisy said, as with her husband she went through the great rooms,
whose only ornament consisted in the warm fires on the hearth and the
pots of chrysanthemums and late roses which Dorothy had put here and
there by way of brightening the house up a bit and making the
home-coming more cheerful for the young people.
But it needed more than roses, and chrysanthemums, and fires to satisfy
Daisy, who, forgetting the little back room in the dressmaker's shop
whence she came, and remembering only the delights of the Continent and
the excitement of Monte Carlo, and the honor, as she thought it, of
having a real live earl in her party, tossed her head a little and said
she wished she was back in Paris.


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