Flushed with success, for the moment engrossed in the wider field she saw ahead, she had not a thought for anything else.

But after dinner the atmosphere changed.
"To hear me talk," she told them, "you'd think the whole world depended on me, and on my school and my ideas.

Me, me, me! And it has been me all winter long! What a time I've given both of you!" She grew repentant and grateful, first to her father and then to Allan, and then more and more to Allan, with her happy eyes on his.

And with a keen worried look at them both, Roger rose and left the room.
* * * * * Baird was leaning forward.

He had both her hands in his own.
"Well ?" he asked.