She was about to learn the truth at last.
Trying to keep the excitement she felt out of her voice, Grace asked in a low tone, "Whom did you return it to, Miss Post ?" "Why, Miss Nesbit," was the answer.

"I was inside the campus when I found it, and just then she passed me on the walk.

I knew she was a sophomore, and thought it best to get rid of it, as I would probably have forgotten all about it, and it never would have been returned." "Quite true," Grace replied, but she thought to herself that a great deal of unhappiness might have been avoided if Miss Post had only forgotten.
The talk drifted into other channels.

Miss Post told Grace that she expected to sail for Europe as soon as school was over.

In the fall she would return and enter Wellesley.