She was not alarmed--not even curious.

In her very presence the boy had trifled with his great secret and she had not known! So continuously had Winona dwelt in the loftier realms of social and spiritual endeavour, it is doubtful if she knew that an organization known as the Friday Night Social Club was doing a lot to make life brighter for those of Newbern's citizens who were young and sportive and yet not precisely people of the better sort.

In the older days of the town, when Winona was twenty, there was but one social set.

Now she was thirty, and there were two sets.

She knew the town had grown; one nowadays saw strange people that one did not know, even many one would not care to know.