A DOUBLE PUZZLE Mary Reynolds slipped into her place at dinner that night with red eyelids and a woebegone expression on her small face.

Evelyn did not enter the dining-room until after the others had began their meal.
Despite the air of careless indifference with which she took her seat, Grace fancied she saw a gleam of anxiety in her eyes.

From the few words she had overheard she understood not only the meaning of Mary's dejection, but also of Evelyn's anxious look.

But what was it that Evelyn had required of Mary and that Mary had bluntly refused to do?
Suppose Evelyn had involved herself in some fresh difficulty.

To Grace the thought was distinctly disturbing.