lt," said
Katherine. Then she added hastily: "To-night I felt as if I wanted
someone to see the moon rise with me, so I am very glad you came."

They walked up the hill in silence, despite the desire for company
which both had felt, and stood together at the top, watching the
silver glory of the moon coming up over the black pine trees, with
no speech at all until Mary asked with a ring of envy in her tone:
"What has come to you to-night?"

Katherine flushed, answering in quick apology: "Please forgive me.
It is fearfully rude of me to be so silent and abstracted."

"It wasn't that. Speech is only one way of expressing one's
thoughts, and very often not the most eloquent way either. But you
look so light-hearted to-night; it shines from your eyes,
and--and--well, it is awkward to express what I mean, but it is
visible in every gesture. To put it briefly, you look like a
person to be envied."

"I believe I am to be envied," Katherine answered, flushing again
under the amused scrutiny in Mary's glance. "Everyone who has
health and vigour, with an infinite capacity for enjoyment, should
surely be envied by those not equally blessed, don't you think?"

Mary sighed. "I have health and vigour too. I am not so sure
about the infinite capacity for enjoyment; but I like work, and
plenty of it. Do you know, I thoroughly enjoyed myself at Seal
Cove to-day. I went out on the landing wharf to help the men to
count the take, then I entered it, wrote out the tokens, and worked
as hard as if I were doing it for a weekly wage."

"Well?" There was gentle questioning in Katherine's tone, but no
curiosity; happily there was need for none. She could understand
something of Mary's moods without explanation now, and could give
the sympathy, which was also better expressed without words.

"It isn't well; that is the trouble of it," Mary said wistfully.
"The work is all very well while it lasts, but when it is done, one
is tired, and there is nothing left but weariness and moods
again--just these and nothing more."

"Oh yes, there is! You are leaving out the most important thing;
there is rest. And when one is rested, really rested, the world is
all new again for a time," Katherine answered brightly. She was
speaking now from her own experience, for that was how she had felt
when her trouble was at its blackest.

"I had forgotten rest; but then it won't always come, sometimes
sleep is impossible." Mary sighed again, fo