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 all the old songs they knew, Perry laughed aloud and screeched his horn at nothing. "I do feel good this morning," he said.

She didn't have the heart to tell him then.

They rolled upon the ferry, and the boat began to cross the Thames. Under this new excitement Charlotte found enchantment was returning to the day.

"I told them to have lunch ready at one," he said, looking at his watch. "We'll be just in time." And seeing that Charlotte was admiring the scene on the river, he added: "This is nothing to the view from the house. You wait."

She didn't have long to wait.

The Graham house is one of the show places of Pequot Avenue even as Pequot Avenue is one of the show places of Connecticut; and when the car rolled in at the gate, a feeling that was close to awe stole over Charlotte. She looked out over the harbor with its yachts anchored