Then she said quickly, "Miriam must have been an interesting little girl." "I was a very haughty young person," answered Miriam.

"In the Oakdale Grammar School I was known as the Princess.

Do you remember that, Grace ?" Grace nodded.

"Miriam used to order the girls in her room about as though they were her subjects," she declared.

"She had two long black braids of hair and her cheeks were always pink.