"
"Why didn't your father marry her?" I asked.
"Well, she just simply wouldn't marry him in the end. She got
over being in love with him. I guess she was pretty fickle. Aunt
Olivia said father felt awful about it for awhile, but he got over
it when he met ma. Ma was twice as good-looking as Agnes Clark.
Agnes was a sight for freckles, so Aunt Olivia says. But she and
father remained real good friends. Just think, if she had married
him we would have been the children of the Governor's wife."
"But she wouldn't have been the Governor's wife then," said Dan.
"I guess it's just as good being father's wife," declared Cecily
loyally.
"You might think so if you saw the Governor," chuckled Dan.
"Uncle Roger says it would be no harm to worship him because he
doesn't look like anything in the heavens above or on the earth
beneath or the waters under the earth."
"Oh, Uncle Roger just says that because he's on the opposite side
of politics," said Cecily. "The Governor isn't really so very
ugly. I saw him at the Markdale picnic two years ago. He's very
fat and bald and red-faced, but I've seen far worse looking men."
"I'm afraid your seat is too near the stove, Aunt Eliza," shouted
Felicity.
Our guest, whose face was certainly very much flushed, shook her
head.
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