You'll be as smart as any of them!" And half laughing, half compassionate, she pulled her blouse out of the box, adjusted the white scarf to it herself, and sent the bewildered Jane about her business, after having shown her first how to unpack her mistress's modest belongings, and strictly charged her to return half an hour before dinner.

"Of course I shall dress myself,--but you may as well have a lesson." The girl went, and Doris was left stormily wondering why she had been such a fool as to bring her.

Then her sense of humour conquered, and her brow cleared.

She went to the open window and stood looking over the park beyond.

Sunset lay broad and rich over the wide stretches of grass, and on the splendid oaks lifting their dazzling leaf to the purest of skies.