While others slept she read and studied.

The heat, tempered by the vast Pacific, was never great, and the air had a vitality that proved a constant aid to her controlling motive.

In the morning she rode or took some form of skilled exercise in which she knew Graydon to be proficient, and she rarely missed her ocean bath.

Such health was she acquiring that it was becoming a joy in itself.

As with all earnest, constant natures, however, her supreme motive grew stronger with time.
In August she received tidings from the East that caused much solicitude and depression.