The tortured look in her blue eyes aroused all Kathleen's sympathy.

Haltingly, tremblingly, bit by bit, Evelyn told of the temptation to use her sister's hard-earned money for fine clothes, and the gulf of deception and dishonesty into which she had plunged by yielding to it.
Kathleen listened without comment.

When Evelyn had finished she said, "You must go back to Overton, Miss Ward, and to Grace Harlowe.

She will forgive everything and set you right with yourself again." "Oh, I couldn't," protested Evelyn wildly.

"She knows already how dishonest I've been.