"Irene told me all about it--she was literally heart-broken.

You told her never to speak to you again--and Irene told me she simply could not imagine what she had said or done to deserve such treatment.

That was why she never came to our meetings again but joined in with the Lowbridge Red Cross.

I do not blame her in the least, and I, for one, will not ask her to lower herself by helping us out of this scrape." "You don't expect me to ask her ?" giggled Amy MacAllister, the other member of the committee.

"Irene and I haven't spoken for a hundred years.