How is your father ?" "Much better, thank you," replied the tall girl.

"We still have two nurses, but I think he is out of danger now.

I hated to leave him, but he was so worried because I had missed the first two weeks of college, that he insisted I should come on here at once.

I arrived last night and went directly to Holland House, but the matron there thought I had given up coming, and the room I engaged by letter had been given to some one else only yesterday morning.

She directed me to Wayne Hall, where, by the merest luck, I managed to secure half a room." During this flow of explanations, delivered in Miss Eliot's crisp, business-like tones, Grace had listened in open amazement.