There was something a little malicious, teasing, in the way she delighted to tell him about herself, and then walk demurely, repentantly out.

At St.Agatha's she had been rather a difficult person to deal with.

She was, as the good sisters of the school had readily perceived, too full of life, too active, to be easily controlled.

"That Miss Butler," once observed Sister Constantia, the Mother Superior, to Sister Sempronia, Aileen's immediate mentor, "is a very spirited girl, you may have a great deal of trouble with her unless you use a good deal of tact.

You may have to coax her with little gifts.