That she was unjustly severe in her self-arraignment did not occur to Grace.

It was her first experience with real remorse and, as is usually the case, she did not allow herself the luxury of extenuating circumstances.
When she bowed her head during the concluding prayer her eyes were full of tears and it was only by desperate effort that she managed to wink them back.
"Father wants to see us now, you know," Mabel reminded her guests, as they took their places once more in the automobile.

"To Father's office," she directed the chauffeur, and the car with its freight of happy girls glided down the avenue toward the section of the city in which Mr.Ashe's office was situated.
"Of course, Father's employees don't work to-day," explained Mabel as they rolled along.

"His private secretary is with him, but his offices are closed.

He wishes us to take luncheon with him, then we are to go for a drive through Central Park.