Then, Mrs.
Sturtevant read in a trembling voice a paper on Emerson.

Then Margaret sprang her mines.

She rose and surveyed her audience with smiling impressiveness.

"Ladies," she said, and there was an immediate hush, "Ladies, I have the pleasure, the exceeding pleasure of presenting you to my guest, Miss Martha Wallingford, the author of _Hearts Astray_.

She will now speak briefly to you upon her motive in writing and her method of work." There was a soft clapping of hands.
Margaret sat down.