Not that she planned details, or concerned herself with first steps; her picturings overleaped all that.

Principally, she saw her name great on all the bill-boards of that unkind city, and herself, unchanged in age but glamorous with fame and Paris clothes, returning in a private car.

No doubt the pleasantest development of her vision was a dialogue with Mildred; and this became so real that, as she projected it, Alice assumed the proper expressions for both parties to it, formed words with her lips, and even spoke some of them aloud.

"No, I haven't forgotten you, Mrs.Russell.I remember you quite pleasantly, in fact.

You were a Miss Palmer, I recall, in those funny old days.