I hope you'll never come back, this time.

You've made trouble enough already." Thus, then, on the day of departure, Josephine St.Auban found herself standing before her mirror.

It was not an unlovely image which she saw there.

In some woman's fashion, assisted by Jeanne's last tearful services and the clumsy art of Lily, she had managed a garbing different from that of her first arrival at this place.
The lines of her excellent figure now were wholly shown in this costume of golden brown which she had reserved to the last.

Her hair was even glossier than when she first came here to Tallwoods, her cheek of better color.