"I am sure you must be Miss Hilda Graham, and I am Bubble's sister Pink.
[Illustration: "THE PALE GIRL MADE NO ATTEMPT TO RISE."] "Please sit down," she added.

"I am so _very_ glad to see you.

I have wanted again and again to thank you for all your kindness to my Bubble, but I didn't know when I should have a chance.

Did Bubble show you the way ?" Hildegarde was so astonished, so troubled, so dismayed that she hardly knew what she was saying or doing.

She took the slender fingers in her own for an instant, and then sat down, saying hastily: "Oh, no! I--I found my way alone.