After dinner it rained harder than ever, so the girls gathered in Miss MacNish’s parlor, the use of which, they had discovered, went with “lodgings.” They had exhausted the guide-books, written on most of their post-cards, decided to go to Iona on the first pleasant day, if there ever was one, and were beginning to feel very dull indeed, when Miss MacNish’s funny little maid appeared to say that there were two gentlemen down-stairs; and should she bring them right up?