Outside,the rain continued to run down the screened windows of Mrs. Sennett's little Cape Cod cottage. the long weeds and grass that composed the front yard dripped against the blurred background of the bay,where the water was almost the color of the grass. Mrs. Sennett's five charges were vigorously playing house in the dining room. (In the wintertime, Mrs. Sennett was housekeeper for a Mr. Curley, in boston, and during the summers the Curley children boarded with her on the Cape.)