"I do not think I shall stay much longer.

I have a headache." "I'm so sorry," said Grace sympathetically.

"Can I do anything for you ?" Mildred Taylor did not answer.

Her lip quivered and her eyes filled with tears.

She brushed them angrily away, saying with a petulance entirely foreign to her, "Please don't trouble yourself about me." "Very well," replied Grace, in proud surprise.