I should have known better." The newspaper girl winced at this thrust, but said nothing.
"And to think," Grace went on bitterly, "that I broke my promise to my father for a girl so devoid of loyalty and honor that she could not understand the first principle of fair play!" Grace's bitter denunciation aroused fully the other girl's deep-seated resentment against her.

"Leave this room," she cried out, her voice rising, her eyes snapping with rage.

"Don't ever come here again.

This room belongs to me----" "And also to me," said a quiet voice from the doorway.

"What seems to be the trouble here ?" Patience Eliot walked into the room, traveling bag in hand.