She sent for Miss Wilder, who happened to be coming home just at that time.

My resignation wasn't accepted, and I would perhaps have gone on for another year at Overton, but--" Grace paused, her fine face grew tender.

"Tom came back," she continued, a faint tremor in her even tones, "and so I gladly gave up my work for love.

That's the whole story.

I never expected to tell it to any one.