She rose to go, looking as though she would like to say more but could not find words in which to express herself.
"You are quite welcome.

I will try very hard to place her," was Grace's parting assurance.
After the woman, who had introduced herself as Ida Ward, had gone, Grace went slowly upstairs and into her pretty sitting-room.

She looked long and fixedly at each attractive appointment, then she walked on into the bedroom, which she and Emma shared, and surveyed it with the same searching gaze.

"I can't do it unless Emma is willing," she murmured.

"I dislike asking her after inviting her to share my suite.