He began to wonder if she were not younger than he had thought.

The girl never raised her downcast eyes; the older woman cast one swift sharp glance at her.
The boy murmured so inaudibly that Margaret barely heard, and she rose and followed him as he led the way to the elevator.

Miss Wallingford, who was a young Western woman and a rising, if not already arisen literary star, had signified her willingness to receive Mrs.Wilbur Edes in her own private sitting-room.

Margaret was successful so far.

She had pencilled on her card, "Can you see me on a matter of importance?
I am not connected with the Press," and the young woman who esteemed nearly everything of importance, and was afraid of the Press, had agreed at once to see her.