But I warn you, child, I'm not going to let you come to harm." Lavinia laughed and shrugged her plump shoulders.

After what she had gone through the night before she felt she could face anything.

She knew she could talk over the good-natured Hannah and she heard the latter lock the door without feeling much troubled.
For all that Lavinia had a good deal to worry about, and she sat sipping the chocolate while she pondered over what she should do.

She could think of no one she could go to besides Mr.Gay.How would he receive her after her escapade?
"He knows so many play actors," she murmured,--"didn't he say I had a stage face?
I wonder--I wonder." And still wondering she rose and straightened the bed.

Shifting the pillow she found beneath it the purse she had placed there before going to sleep.