"Oh, Miss Harlowe, if I could, if she would take me! I'd work so hard and pay every penny of everything I owe." "But you don't owe anything yet," reminded Grace, smiling.
Evelyn did not answer.

It was doubtful whether she heard Grace's last words.

She stood perfectly still, a curious look on her beautiful face.
Suddenly she said in a low, halting tone, "Miss Harlowe, if you knew how--" A knock on the door interrupted her speech.

Without finishing, she stepped to it and turned the knob.

"Hello, Mary," she said indifferently.
"Oh, Miss Harlowe, I didn't know that you had come home," cried Mary Reynolds.