He had foreseen changes for the better, but had not hoped for anything like this, he declared.
"I just want to be near when Graydon first sees you!" exclaimed voluble Mrs.Muir, at the dinner-table.
The remark was unexpected, and Madge, to her dismay, found the blood rushing to her face.

Quick as thought she put her handkerchief to her mouth, and sought to escape notice under the ruse of a brief strangulation.

"This is not going to answer at all," she thought.

"I must acquire a better self-control." She at once began talking about Graydon in the most simple and natural manner possible, asking many questions.

Mrs.Muir's intuition and powers of observation were not very great, and she was without the faintest suspicion of what was passing in Madge's mind.