The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 26 Page 18

when you were a girl. I’ll play it for you now, while you are a girl.”

“But I really am grown up now, David. It’s quite absurd for me to go about like this. It’s only because mamma chooses to have it so. She even keeps a governess for me still.”

“To her you are a child, and to me you are still a girl, and a mighty fine one.”

“It’s so good to have you back, David! You haven’t forgotten the Jig! Where’s your flute? Get it, and I’ll accompany you. I can drum a little now — after a fashion. We’ll let them talk.”

So they amused themselves for the rest of the evening with music, and Lady Thryng’s face lost the strained and