VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Before May was out, Molly Corney was married and had left the neighbourhood for Newcastle.

Although Charley Kinraid was not the bridegroom, Sylvia's promise to be bridesmaid was claimed.

But the friendship brought on by the circumstances of neighbourhood and parity of age had become very much weakened in the time that elapsed between Molly's engagement and wedding.

In the first place, she herself was so absorbed in her preparations, so elated by her good fortune in getting married, and married, too, before her elder sister, that all her faults blossomed out full and strong.

Sylvia felt her to be selfish; Mrs.Robson thought her not maidenly.