MRS.

REFFOLD LEARNS A LESSON.
PETERSHOF was a winter resort for consumptive patients, though, indeed, many people simply needed the change of a bracing climate went there to spend a few months; and came, away wonderfully better for the mountain air.

This was what Bernardine Holme hoped to do; she was broken down in every way, but it was thought that a prolonged stay in Petershof might help her back to a reasonable amount of health, or, at least, prevent her from slipping into further decline.

She had come alone, because she had no relations except that old uncle, and no money to pay any friend who might have been willing to come with her.

But she probably cared very little, and the morning after her arrival, she strolled out by herself, investigating the place where she was about to spend six months.
She was dragging herself along, when she met the Disagreeable Man.