"Strange the rest of the students here haven't appeared on the scene." Grace involuntarily retreated a step or two, her face flushing.

She could not endure the idea of being thought an intruder.
"Don't go," said the tall young woman, in the same crisp tone.

"I didn't mean that you were an intruder.

I only wonder that no one else came.

The wreck of the Hesperus wasn't serious compared with this," she said dryly, indicating the littered floor.