Rose, the tameless heroine who had once put her mother's philosophy in action, was the easiest filly that turbaned matron ever yet drove into the straight road of the world.

It even surprised Lady Jocelyn to see how wonderfully she had been broken in by her grandmother.

Her ladyship wrote to Drummond to tell him of it, and Drummond congratulated her, saying, however: 'Changes of this sort don't come of conviction.

Wait till you see her at home.

I think they have been sticking pins into the sore part.' Drummond knew Rose well.