We have progressed as far as her twelfth year, and I was just on the point of learning how she survived scarlet fever when the doctor didn't expect her to live, last night, when she happened to remember that she hadn't looked at her history lesson and I was mercifully spared further torture." "Poor Miriam," laughed Grace.

"But you could have said you didn't want her the day Mrs.Elwood brought her here.

What made you decide to let her stay?
I saw by your face something interesting was going on in your mind." Miriam looked reflectively at Grace.

"I don't know I'm sure just why I let her stay.

It wasn't because I wished to please Mrs.Elwood, though she is so nice with all of us.