"Why, I forgot to open this letter!" she exclaimed, snatching the unopened letter from the table and tearing at the end of it.
The letter proved to be a penitent little note from Arline asking Grace to forgive her, and prove her forgiveness by taking dinner with her the following evening at Vinton's.

Grace felt a thrill of happiness swell within her as she read the note.

Her brief estrangement from Arline had been another of her secret griefs.
"I'm going to take dinner with Arline to-morrow night," she announced to Anne.
"You'd better hurry if you care to take dinner with us," called Elfreda from the doorway, in which she had paused just in time to hear Grace's last remark.
"It isn't dinner," corrected Anne.

"It is supper on Sunday, and never very good, either." "We never have Sunday dinner in the middle of the day at home," commented Elfreda.
"When you are at Wayne Hall do as the Wayne Hallites do," quoted Miriam, who had followed Elfreda into the room.
"Where is Patience ?" inquired Grace.
"Enjoying the solitude of her room before the disturber arrives," volunteered Elfreda.

"She'll be along presently." Despite the fact that they had had dinner on the train, the four girls decided that they were hungry, and on going downstairs to the dining room where Mrs.Elwood had prepared an unusually good supper, proved it, to their own and Mrs.Elwood's satisfaction.