Whoever she was, she could not have realized what a dishonorable thing she had done, was Grace's charitable reflection.

She wondered what Mabel would think when Miss Duncan asked her to identify the theme as the one Grace had written during that evening in Holland House.
"I'm going to stop thinking of it for the rest of the day," declared Grace half aloud, as she dressed for dinner late that afternoon.

She started guiltily, glancing quickly to where Anne sat mending a tiny tear in her white silk blouse.

Anne, who was fully occupied with her mending, made no comment.

She was so used to Grace's habit of thinking aloud that she had no idle curiosity regarding her friend's thoughts.