Chapter 1. Present And Absent
_ CHAPTER I. PRESENT AND ABSENT
"It shall be exactly as you please, my dear!" said Mr. Montfort. "I have no wish in the matter, save to fulfil yours. I had thought it would be pleasanter, perhaps, to have the rooms occupied； but your feeling is most natural, and there is no reason why you should not keep your present room."
"Thank you, uncle!" said the girl whom he addressed as Margaret, and whom some of my readers may have met before. "It is not that I don‘t love the dear rooms, nor that it would not be a joy to be in them, for some reasons； but,--I think, just to go and sit there every day, alone or with you, and think about her,--it seems as if that would be easier just now, dear uncle. You always understand, Uncle John!"
Mr. Montfort nodded, and puffed thoughtfully at his cigar. The two, uncle and niece, were sitting on the wide verandah of Fernley House； it was a soft, fair June evening, and the fireflies were flitting through the trees, a

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