Whatever Grace wished her to know she would hear in due season.
"Miriam and Elfreda are not going with us, you know," said Grace as they were about to leave their room.
"I didn't know it," commented Anne.

"Why did they change their minds ?" "Miriam thinks you and I can do more toward restoring peace without her and Elfreda.

She suspects that Ruth will satisfy Arline's curiosity and at the same time appease her wrath by telling what she refused to tell that other night, provided there are not too many listeners." "What a wise girl Miriam is!" exclaimed Anne admiringly.

"I never thought of that." "Nor I," admitted Grace, "until she mentioned it.

Then I saw the wisdom of it." "Where are we to meet Ruth and Arline ?" asked Anne.