CHAPTER II.
J.ELFREDA INTRODUCES HERSELF.
For the first half hour the three girls were silent.

Each sat wrapped in her own thoughts, and those thoughts centered upon the dear ones left behind.

Anne, whose venture into the theatrical world had necessitated her frequent absence from home, felt the wrench less than did Grace or Miriam.

Aside from their summer vacations they had never been away from their mothers for any length of time.

To Grace, as she watched the landscape flit by, the thought of the ever widening distance between her and her mother was intolerable.