How much Beth De Graf misjudged Diana Von Taer the future will determine.

The interview had tired Diana.

As she reentered her carriage she was undecided whether to go home or hunt up the third niece.

But Willing Square was not five minutes' drive from here, so she ordered the coachman to proceed there.
"I am positively out of my element in this affair," she told herself, "for it is more difficult to cultivate these inexperienced girls than I had thought.

They are not exactly impossible, as I at first feared, but they are so wholly unconventional as to be somewhat embarrassing as _protegees_.