It was so extremely unfortunate that it should have happened just when they had begun to talk of the Semper Fidelis fancy dress party.

She could not carry out her ideas successfully without Arline's co-operation and help.

After changing her mind several times, Grace decided to go to Morton House and see Arline.
"It really isn't my place," she ruminated, "but I can't bear to have Arline angry with me." Last of all, Grace was troubled over the notice she had read in the paper concerning "Larry, the Locksmith." She was certain that the man she had seen in front of the moving picture theatre on the evening of their little theatre party was none other than the robber in whose capture she had been instrumental during her senior year at high school.
Should she notify the Overton authorities of her discovery?
Perhaps by this time the thief was many miles from Overton.

Grace disliked the idea of figuring even privately in the affair.

Yet was it right to withhold her knowledge?
She could not determine on any particular course of action, and with an impatient sigh at her own lack of decision in the matter she rose from her chair and prepared to go to her first class in anything but a cheerful frame of mind..