Let me help you, and I want you to get yourself up 'perfectly regardless.' You must outshine them all at the hop this evening." "Nonsense, Mary! They won't be here for an hour and a half.

I'm going to lie down;" and she went to her room.

When her sister sought admittance half an hour later the door was locked and all was quiet.
At last, in her impatience, she knocked and cried, "Wake up.

They will be here soon." "I'm not asleep, and it will not take me long to dress." "Well, you are the coolest young woman I ever knew," Mrs.Muir called out, finding that admittance was denied her.
Madge had determined to spend the final hour of her long separation alone.

Her nature had become too deep and strong to seek trivial diversion from the suspense that weighed upon her spirit.