From a passage behind her, a girl, butterfly-bright, flashed out and danced joyously down the stairs.

A new-comer, thought Jenny, with a pang of alarm for her mistress! But she heard the new-comer speak, and heard her spoken to.

It was Joan Whitworth.
"Oh!" Jenny Prask gasped.
Undoubtedly Joan "hooked behind" to-night.

What had come over her?
Jenny asked.

Her quick mind realised that Mario Escobar was not answerable for the change since Mario Escobar was miles away at Midhurst.