ous of the effect
that name had produced upon two of her auditors, Wilford and his mother.

They did not faint, like Marian, but Wilford's face was white as marble,
and his eyes turned quickly to his mother, who, in her first shock,
started so violently as to throw down from the stand a costly vase,
which was broken in many pieces. This occasioned a little diversion, and
by the time the flowers and fragments were gathered up, Wilford's lips
were not quite as livid, but he dared not trust his voice yet, and
listened while his sisters gave their opinion of the name. Bell deciding
for it at once, and Juno hesitating until she had heard from a higher
power than Katy. One there was in that family council who seized upon it
eagerly. Jamie had been brought into the parlor in his wheel-chair, and
sat leaning his cheek upon his hand when the name was spoken. Then, with
a sudden lighting up of his face, he exclaimed, "Genevra! I've heard it
before. Where was it, grandma? Didn't you talk of it once with--"

"Hush-h, Jamie. Don't interrupt us now," Wilford said, in a voice so
much sterner than he was wont to use when addressing the little boy,
that Jamie shrank back abashed and frightened; while Mrs. Cameron, still
with her back to Katy, asked, what had put that fanciful name into her
mind? Where had she heard it?

Katy explained, and, with the removal of the fear which for a few
moments had chilled his blood, Wilford grew calm again; while into his
heart there crept the thought that by giving that name to his child some
slight atonement might be made to the occupant of that grave in St.
Mary's churchyard--to her above whose head the English daisies had
blossomed and faded many a year. But not so with his mother--the child
should not be called Genevra if she could prevent it; and she opposed it
with all her powers, offering at last, as a great concession on her
part, to let it bear the name of any of Katy's family--Hannah and Betsy
mentally excepted, of course--Lucy Lennox, Helen Lennox, Katy Lennox,
anything but Genevra. As usual, Wilford when he had learned her mind,
joined with her, notwithstanding the secret preference, and the
discussion became quite warm, especially as Katy evinced a willfulness
for which Helen had never given her credit. Hitherto she had been as
yielding as wax, but on this point she was firm, gathering strength from
the fact that Wilford did not oppose her as he usually did. She could
not, perhaps, have r