The same moment my wife came in. "Why didn't you send for me, Harry, to get
your tea?" she said.
"I did not deserve any, seeing I had disregarded proper times and seasons.
But I knew you must be busy."
"I have been superintending the arrangement of bedrooms, and the unpacking,
and twenty different things," said Ethelwyn. "We shall be so comfortable!
It is such a curious house! Have you had a nice walk?"
"Mamma, I never had such a walk in my life," returned Wynnie. "You would
think the shore had been built for the sake of the show--just for a
platform to see sunsets from. And the sea! Only the cliffs will be rather
dangerous for the children."
"I have just been telling Connie about the sunset. She could see something
of the colours on the water, but not much more."
"O, Connie, it will be so delightful to get you out here! Everything is
so big! There is such room everywhere! But it must be awfully windy in
winter," said Wynnie, whose nature was always a little prospective, if not
apprehensive.
But I must not keep my reader longer upon mere family chat.
CHAPTER XIV.
MORE ABOUT KILKHAVEN.
Our dining-room was one story below the level at which we had entered the
parsonage; for, as I have said, the house was built into the face of the
cliff, just where it sunk nearly to the level of the shores of the bay.
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