Page:The Clergyman's Wife.djvu/184

 speak to me. Dear Hubert, I have longed more than any one else to see you.

Rosa.—She's talked of you often enough—oftener, a great deal, than any one else—I can tell you that. Oh! I'm so glad! I'll burn that drawing-desk to-morrow morning. Rachel's busy fingers shall have a holiday—that they shall! I'll hide all the brushes and paints for a year.

Rachel.—But you must not forget that the hap- piness of this hour has been won by toil.

(Answer to charade—Industry.)