" "Letty is a strange, gentle little thing.

Usually brides do not look their best, but Letty was the most charming, radiant, bewildering creatureand so absurdly youngas

It was all right now;Blanche was married and so forth; Letty was a child; Elsie was his daughter; Helen Darley was a nice, worthy drudge,poor thing!faded, faded,colors wouldn't wash,just what she wanted to show off against.

Letty was an orphan, and lived with her cousin, Friend Allis.

Miss Letty or Letitia Forrester was a city-bred girl of some fifteen or sixteen years old, who was passing the summer with her grandfather for the sake of country air and quiet.