Mrs.Tufis hastened to interpose: "There's no doubt in my mind that the poor, dear girl really took very deeply to heart the stories that have been circulated about Harry Glen's conduct, though there are people ready to say that she was quite willing to play the role of the stricken one.

It really makes her look very interesting.

Mourning and the plain style of wearing her hair suit her very, VERY well.

I do not think I ever saw her looking so lovely as she has lately, and I have heard quite a number of GENTLEMEN say the same thing.
"If she'd had real spirit," said Mrs.Grimes, "she'd have dropped Harry Glen without all this heroine-of-a-yellow-covered-novel demonstration, and showed her contempt of the fellow by going ahead just as usual, pretending that his conduct was nothing to her; but she's a deep one.
I'll venture anything she's got a well-laid scheme, that none of us dream of." "Mrs.Tufis,"-- it was the calm, even tones of Rachel Bond's voice that fell upon the startled ears of the little coterie of gossipers.

She had glided in unobserved by them in the earnestness of their debate.