CHAPTER XV.
The day following Stephen's visit was one of many spent by Lady Barbara in working at "home," as she called the simple apartment in which Martha had given her shelter.
With the aid of a shop-girl whose mother Martha had known, she had found employment at Rosenthal's, on upper Third Avenue.

There had been need of an expert needlewoman in a department recently opened, and Mangan, in charge of the work, had taken her name and address.

The repairing of rare laces had been one of her triumphs when a girl, she having placed an inset in the middle of an old piece of Valenciennes which had deceived even the experts at Kensington Museum.

And so, when one of Rosenthal's agents had looked up her lodgings, had seen Martha, and noted "Mrs.Stanton's" quiet refinement, he had at once given her the place.

She had retained, with Martha's advice, the name that Dalton had assumed for her on her arrival in New York, and Rosenthal's pay-roll and messengers knew her by no other.
These days at home bad been gradually extended, her employer finding that she could work there more satisfactorily, and of late the greater part of each week had been spent in the small suite of rooms in St.
Mark's Place--much to Martha's delight, who had arranged her own duties so as to be with her mistress.