_She_ was not in the least annoyed by any number of abject and committed slaves, and she was approaching the period when she proposed to surrender with great discretion, but to whom was not a settled point.
Madge was beginning to make victims also, but she made them by being simply what she was, and those who suffered most had to admit to themselves that she was almost as elusive as a spirit of the air.
In the spring visitors to the health resort, returning to the East, brought to the Muirs rumors of Madge's beauty, fascination, and accomplishments.

They were a little puzzled, but concluded that Madge had appeared well in a rendezvous of invalids, and were glad to believe that she was much better.

Prudent Mrs.Muir wrote, however, "Do not think of returning till the last of May.

Then we shall soon go to the mountains.

This will be another change, and change in your case, you know, has proved so beneficial! We expect Graydon soon.