In a pique she left school and set forth to earn her own living.

A year's hardship as governess in the family of Congressman Ritchey and subsequent disillusionment as a country school-teacher brought her to her senses and she realised that she cared for Tom Reddon after all.

She and Miss Gray together prepared the letter which told Reddon where she could be found, and that eager young gentleman did the rest.

He had been waiting for months for just such a message from her.

The night of the spelling-match he induced her to come to Colonel Randall's, and now the whole house-party, including Miss Banks, was to leave on the following day for New York.