I wonder why nothing ever comes quite right with us ?" Then she turned away hastily, that Emily, who at that moment came into the kitchen, might not see the tears that would start to her eyes.
When at last Kitty sat down to the meal which she no longer wanted, every one else had left the table.

She was not sorry, for it saved her from having to make a pretence of eating, and left her free to indulge in her own moods.

It gave her time, too, to think over all that had happened, and might yet happen.
Before she went up to bed, though, she got a tray, and collecting on it a tempting meal, carried it to Dan's room.

She hoped he would let her in, for she badly needed a talk with him, but just as she was about to knock at his door the murmur of voices within arrested her attention.
Whom could Dan have got in there?
she wondered in great surprise.
Tony was in bed, and Betty was in her room.

She listened more closely, and nearly dropped the tray in her astonishment, for the voice she heard was her father's, and she had never before known him go to their rooms to talk to them.
For a moment her heart sank with dread.