Oh , Miss West , when you come to live with us , will you -- could you -- teach me to cook -- a little -- and sew -- and -- and -- and do things ? I do n't know anything . I wo n't be much trouble -- I 'll try to learn fast . '' `` Darling , I 'll teach you and help you all I can . Now , you wo n't say a word to anybody about this , will you -- not even to Faith , until your father himself tells you you may ? And you 'll stay and have tea with me ? '' `` Oh , thank you -- but -- but -- I think I 'd rather go right back and take the letter to father , '' faltered Una . `` You see , he 'll be glad that much SOONER , Miss West . '' `` I see , '' said Rosemary . She went to the house , wrote a note and gave it to Una . When that small damsel had run off , a palpitating bundle of happiness , Rosemary went to Ellen , who was shelling peas on the back porch . `` Ellen , '' she said , `` Una Meredith has just been here to ask me to marry her father . '' Ellen looked up and read her sister 's face . `` And you 're going to ? '' she said . `` It 's quite likely . '' Ellen went on shelling peas for a few minutes . Then she suddenly put her hands up to her own face . There were tears in her black-browed eyes . `` I -- I hope we 'll all be happy , '' she said between a sob and a laugh .
Down at the manse Una Meredith , warm , rosy , triumphant , marched boldly into her father 's study and laid a letter XXXXX the desk before him .
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