Betty had come back and settled down to life at home, mainly because her step-mother could no longer "carry on." Janet could not get servants, and if she could have got them, she could not now have paid them.

Then there had been the silly, vulgar but highly dangerous affair between Rosamund and their too attractive married "billet".

Had Betty been at home that business would almost certainly have been checked in the bud.

As for Dolly, she was worse than no good in the home.

But--a certain secret hope was cherished both by Janet and by Betty concerning Dolly.