THE PUZZLE DEEPENS Grace experienced a pleasure in being at home for Easter so deep as to be akin to pain.

When as a student at Overton she had traveled happily home for her Christmas and Easter vacations there had been a difference.
Then, her classmates had much to do with making it easier to be away from her adored father and mother.

But now that she had bravely launched her boat on the tempestuous sea of work, she found that home was a far distant shore, for whose cheery lights she often yearned.

To be sure Emma was a never-failing source of consolation, but there were more times than one when the clutching fingers of homesickness were at her throat.
To Mr.and Mrs.Harlowe, Emma Dean was an unfailing source of amusement and delight.

In Hippy, too, she found a kindred spirit, and when Elfreda arrived the funny trio was complete.