It was in reality doubtful if she would have been permitted to listen to Lydia Greenway, had that person been available.

Annie's sole large recreation was the Zenith Club, and it meant, as she had said, much to her.

It was to the stifled young heart as a great wind of stimulus which was for the strengthening of her soul.

Whatever the Zenith Club of Fairbridge was to others, it was very much worth while for little Annie Eustace.

She wrote papers for it, which were astonishing, although her hearers dimly appreciated the fact, not because of dulness, but because little Annie had written them, and it seemed incredible to Fairbridge women that little Annie Eustace whom they had always known, and whose grandmother and aunts they knew, could possibly write anything remarkable.