Chapter 51

"Yes--yourself, if you don't think us too audacious to ask it. _Would_ you consider doing it, for the summer? Neither Miss Grant nor I can think of anybody we should be so charmed to have. She is going to Canada very soon to visit her mother who has been seriously ill. I can't possibly leave this place. I do think if you would take the job you might get a tremendous amount of suggestion out of it. By the way, we have some unusual friends, David and Hester MacRoss, who live in Hamerton. You must know who David is--h…