At any other time she would have passed them by in disdain, but on that particular occasion, feeling gloomy and downcast, she decided to forget her grievance against them.

Then, too, she did not know them to be the girls who had sent her the anonymous letter.

Grace had never told her the truth of the affair, so she played unsuspectingly into their hands.

They had invited her to have ice cream with them, and she had insisted that they be her guests at dinner.

After that they had invited her to Stuart Hall to dinner and she had entertained them at Wayne Hall one evening, greatly to the surprise of Grace, who suddenly remembered that, after all, Elfreda was not so much to blame as she did not know the truth.