Elfreda's face sobered first.

"My news isn't pleasant, Grace.

Read this." Slipping her hand into her coat pocket she drew forth a half sheet of paper partly covered with writing.

Grace received it wonderingly: "Two Overton College Girls Play Lady Bountiful to Their Needy Classmates," she read.

The words were arranged to form headlines, and below was written: "The latest whim of two wealthy students of Overton College has taken the form of Sweet Charity, and impecunious students of Overton whose finances will not permit of their making long railway journeys home for Christmas are to be the object of these young women's solicitude.