The little courtship, running its placid course through sleepy cathedral towns, has not been altered in the least by these new pages. It is only as if the story-teller, meeting a new pair of interested eyes, had almost unconsciously drifted into fresh confidences._ _KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN._ _This is all quite true, and anyway we have said nothing that we are a bit ashamed of._ _KITTY SCHUYLER._ X _JACK COPLEY._ _Their mark._ London, _July, 1901_. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE 'JACK! JACK! SAVE ME!' _Frontispiece_ 'IT WOULD 'ARDLY BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOSEBERRY-TART, MISS' 11 I OFFERED IT TO HER WITH DISTINGUISHED GRACE 27 I WAS DISCONCERTED AT BEING FOUND IN A DRAMSHOP ALONE 35 SHE IGNORES THE BABBLE OF CONTEMPORANEOUS LOVERS 63 'LOR', MISS!' SAID FARMER HENDRY, 'HE HAVEN'T BEEN PASTURED THERE FOR THREE WEEKS' 93 A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP _She_ Winchester, _May 28, ----_, The Royal Garden Inn. We are doing the English cathedral towns, Aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were leaving Cedarhurst, that he wouldn't for the world have it too much improved, and Aunt Celia remarked that, so far as she could judge, there was no immediate danger; with which exchange of hostilities they parted. We are travelling under the yoke of an iron itinerary, warranted neither to bend nor break. It was made out by a young High Church curate in New York, and if it were a creed, or a document that had been blessed by all the bishops and popes, it could not be more sacred to Aunt Celia. She is awfully High Church, and I believe she thinks this tour of the cathedrals will give me a taste for ritual and bring me into the true fold. Mamma was a Unitarian, and so when she was alive I generally attended service at that church. Aunt Celia says it is not a Church; that the most you can say for it is that it is a 'belief' rather loosely and carelessly formulated. She also says that dear old Dr. Kyle is the most dangerous Unitarian she knows, because he has leanings towards Christianity.