She cashed this cheque and went straight to Peter Morrison for his estimate of the expenses for the skylight and fireplace.

When she asked for the bill Peter hesitated.
"You wouldn't accept this little addition to your study as a gift from Henry and me ?" he asked lightly.

"It would be a great pleasure to us if you would." "I could accept stones that Henry Anderson had gathered from the mountains and canyons, and I could accept a verse carved on stone, and be delighted with the gift; but I couldn't accept hours of day labor at the present price of labor, so you will have to give me the bill, Peter." Peter did not have the bill, but he had memoranda, and when Linda paid him she reflected that the current talk concerning the inflated price of labor was greatly exaggerated.
For two evenings as Linda returned from school and went to her room she glanced down the hall and smiled at the decoration remaining on Eileen's rug.

The third evening it was gone, so that she knew Eileen was either in her room or had been there.

She did not meet her sister until dinnertime.