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132 RAINBOW VALLEYthe aisle. He had never met her elsewhere, for theWests were Episcopalians, with church affinities inLowbridge, and no occasion for calling upon them hadever arisen. Before to-night, ifany one had askedJohn Meredith what Rosemary West looked like hewould not have had the slightest notion. But he wasnever to forget her, as she appeared to him in theglamour of kind moonlight by the spring.She was certainly not in the least like Cecilia, whohad always been his ideal of womanly beauty.Ceciliahad been small and dark and vivacious RosemaryWest was tall and fair and placid, yet John Merediththought he had never seen so beautiful a woman.She was bareheaded and her golden hair hair of awarm gold, "molasses taffy" colour as Di Blythe hadsaid was pinned in sleek, close coils over her head;she had large, tranquil, blue eyes that always seemedfull of friendliness, a high white forehead and a finelyshaped face.Rosemary West was always called a "sweet woman."She was so sweet that even her high-bred, stately airhad never gained for her the reputation of being"stuck-up," which it would inevitably have done inthe case of any one else in Glen St. Mary. Life hadtaught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.She had watched the ship on which her lover wentsailingout of Four Winds Harbour into the sunset.But, though she watched long,she had never seen itcoming sailing back. That vigil had taken girlhood