If she made a quick decision it was hers for the summer, at a bargain.

Miss Van Gorder had decided at once; she took an innocent pleasure in bargains.

The next day the keys were hers--the servants engaged to stay on--within a week she had moved.
All very pleasant and easy no doubt--adventure--pooh! And yet she could not really say that her move to the country had brought her no adventures at all.

There had been--things.

Last night the lights had gone off unexpectedly and Billy, the Japanese butler and handy man, had said that he had seen a face at one of the kitchen windows--a face that vanished when he went to the window.