But for her mother it was a different matter.

Aunt Harriet might wish her goddaughter to receive part of her fortune, and to conceal the destruction of the will might mean depriving Mrs.Woodward of a handsome legacy.

How to make Miss Beach realize the loss of the paper without getting Percy into trouble was a problem that might have perplexed older and wiser heads.
Meanwhile it was holiday time, and there were many more pleasant subjects to think about.

Winona's Christmas present had been a small hand camera, the very thing for which she had longed during the whole of the past term.

She contemplated it with the utmost satisfaction.