The meeting had not happened just as their elder brother had desired and planned. He had meant to prepare his sisters for the happy change in Selina, but perhaps it happened just as well. They were left very much to themselves for the rest of the day; and as their way was at such times, they talked in their mother tongue fast and eagerly. That is, Tessie and the little brothers talked, and Selina also, who had much to tell them, though she told it in few words. The beginning and the end of all was her brother Edgar's kindness to her during the time she had been away. As to how it all came about--how through the wonderful skill, and unfailing gentle care of her brother's friend, and of her brother as well, the blessed gift of sight was restored to her, need not be told here. The sweet blue eyes looked just as they had always looked, but there was light in them now. Her face was changed. It was not so peaceful and serener--it could hardly be brighter than it used to be. But it had an expectant look, and its expression varied every moment. Her constant movements towards this and that, in her attempts at a nearer acquaintance with things which she had hitherto only known by touch or by sound, gave her an air of restlessness not at all like Selina, and for a little while Frederica watched her doubtfully. But when Edgar came among them, hushing the eager buzz of talk, and saying gently to Selina that she had seen enough for one day, the old look came back, sweet and serene, and she lay down at his bidding, with closed eyes and a smile on her lips that reassured her sisters. And then Edgar said in response to the brightening of Frederica's face,-- "Yes, it is a new world to her. But she has had the best things all along--the peace and the joy--and she is not going to lose them because she can see. I think you may let yourself be glad for her." "Yes, I am glad! for her," said Frederica gravely, "very glad, I think; or I shall be glad by-and-by." "Are you sure you are glad now?" said Captain Clare to her when a few days had passed, and they had in some measure become accustomed to the knowledge that Selina could see; "because I do not think you always look very glad." "I am glad for Selina, I am glad for us all: But then, you see, I do not quite know what I am going to do with myself and my life now," said she gravely. "I have it all to plan over again, now that Selina will not need me to take care of her." "You need not be afraid, I think," said her friend. "Your work will come to you; and indeed, your sister needs you as much as ever. She does not seem to be able to do without you." "She likes to look at me, because I am like mama, she says. She has not forgotten mama all these years since she was a little child. And I am to teach her all I know; and that will not take me long," added she, laughing. "And besides, she has been learning all the time, though not with her eyes. Oh, yes! I am glad!"