"He must be rich and powerful," she murmured as she fled from her room to play the safety game of being found with the heiress when her Prince Charming should arrive.

Miss Nadine Johnstone failed not to observe the unusual color mantling her sedate friend's cheeks.
"You look as if you had received some good news.

Is the mail in ?" queried Miss Johnstone.
"Not yet.

I hastened back, for I forgot to take my watch and was belated.

I fear I am late, even now, for tiffin," demurely replied the Swiss maiden, dropping for the first time in her life into the baleful arts of the other daughters of Eve.