"Call me when you're ready." He marched off to his library.
Colina breathed freely.

So far so good! Ambrose Doane had not been to call on her father.

He was hardly the simple youth she had decided.
But she couldn't think the less of him for that.
When she heard the door-bell ring--Gaviller's house boasted the only door-bell north of Caribou Lake--her heart astonished her with its thumping.

She ran up to her own room.

Ambrose according to instructions previously given was to be shown into the drawing-room.
Another wonder of Gaviller's house was the full-length mirror imported for Colina.