r work, if--if--" Grace
paused.

"If David asked me to marry him?" Anne finished the question calmly. "I
don't know, Grace. I've asked myself that question so many times that I
am tired of trying to answer it. In fact, I've lately decided to let
matters drift and see what happens. Although there has never been a word
of sentiment exchanged between us, I am reasonably sure that David loves
me, and I am very fond of him," confessed Anne. "In some respects I feel
years older than you girls. I believe it is due to my stage experience;
I have played so many different parts, some of them emotional roles
which have to do with love and renunciation." Anne's musical voice
trembled slightly on the last word.

"I am sure David loves you with all his heart," was Grace's honest
reply. "Now that he has been graduated from college and has gone into
business for himself, I am afraid you will be called upon to decide
before long."

"I am afraid so," sighed Anne. "I wish life weren't quite so
complicated."

"I hope the rest of our senior year will be free from complications."
Grace spoke with grim emphasis. "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, prov