A WELCOME GUEST The summer sun, streaming intimately in at the window of her room, and touching her hair with warm, awakening fingers, caused Grace to open her eyes before six o'clock the next morning.

She lay looking about her, unable for the moment to remember where she was.

Then she laughed and reaching for her kimono, which hung folded across the footboard of the bed, slipped it on, and, thrusting her feet into her bedroom slippers, went to the window.
"Dear old Overton Hall," she murmured, her eyes fixed lovingly on the stately gray tower of the building that she had come to regard as a close friend.

Again she found herself overwhelmed by a tide of reminiscences.

How many times she and Anne had stood at the self-same window, arm in arm, gazing out at the self-same sights.