Much as she longed to see Max Errington again, she felt that the first meeting after that last episode of their acquaintance might well partake of the somewhat doubtful pleasure of skating on thin ice.
It was therefore not without a feeling of relief that she found the actress and her chaperon the only occupants of the former's pretty drawing-room.

They both welcomed her cordially.
"I have heard so much about you," said Mrs.Adams, pleasantly, "that I've been longing to meet you, Miss Quentin.

Adrienne calls you the 'girl with the golden voice,' and I'm hoping to have the pleasure of hearing you sing." Diana was getting used to having her voice referred to as something rather wonderful; it no longer embarrassed her, so she murmured an appropriate answer and the conversation then drifted naturally to Crailing and to the lucky chance which had brought Errington past Culver Point the day Diana was marooned there, and Diana explained that the Rector and his daughter had intended calling upon the occupants of Red Gables, but had been prevented by their sudden departure.
Adrienne laughed.
"Yes, I expect every one thought we were quite mad to run away like that so soon after our arrival! It was a sudden idea of Mr.
Errington's.

He declared he was not satisfied about something in the staging of 'The Grey Gown,' and of course we must needs all rush up to town to see about it.

There wasn't the least necessity, as it turned out, but when Max takes an idea into his head there's no stopping him." "No," added Mrs.Adams.