The only solution which a woman could put upon such a request immediately occurred to her.

She said to herself, "Hm! Mr.Allen wants Rose to stay at home so he can see her himself, and Henry knows it." She stiffened her neck.

Down deep in her heart was a feeling more seldom in women's hearts than in men's.

She would not have owned that she did not wish to part with this new darling of her heart--who had awakened within it emotions of whose strength the childless woman had never dreamed.

There was also another reason, which she would not admit even to herself.