Thursday." Mr.Troy smiled as he read the letter.

"Too formal for a young girl!" he said to himself.

"Every word of it has been dictated by Miss Pink." He was not long in deciding what course he should take.

There was a pressing necessity for cautioning Isabel, and here was his opportunity.
He sent for his head clerk, and looked at his list of engagements for the day.

There was nothing set down in the book which the clerk was not quite as well able to do as the master.