AN EMBRYO MIND READER KATE was far from physical flight as she pounded the indignation of her soul into the path with her substantial feet.

Baffled and angry, she kept reviewing the situation as she went swiftly on her way, regardless of dust and heat.

She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.

If she only could find Adam at the stable, as she passed, and talk with him alone! Secretly, she well knew that the chief source of her dread of meeting her sister-in-law was that to her Agatha was so funny that ridiculing her had been regarded as perfectly legitimate pastime.

For Agatha WAS funny; but she had no idea of it, and could no more avoid it than a bee could avoid being buzzy, so the manner in which her sisters-in-law imitated her and laughed at her, none too secretly, was far from kind.