gracefully out on the floor.

Bruce sat down in her vacant chair next to Patricia. "And now your mind
is at rest about your friend's future," he said with his nicest smile,
"let's talk about your own."

Patricia laid an eager hand on his arm. "Oh, Bruce dear, we won't have
time," she bubbled. "It's going to be so long till I have a future. I
have to study for ages and ages, and, you know, something might, _might_
happen to me. Don't let's plan too far ahead. I'm just looking forward
to finishing up the spring here at Artemis Lodge, studying with
Tancredi, and then I'll be ready to go out to dear old Greycroft with
the rest of you to see the summer through. What's behind that I'd rather
not think about just now. I'm so glad, glad, _glad_ to come back to the
dear hopes, after I thought I'd lost them!"

Bruce smiled again at her flushed face. "You've come back with something
in your hands, Miss Pat," he said with kindly gravity. "I think I see
unselfishness and courage in them now."

And as Patricia's eyes filled with grateful tears, he rose, holding out
a hand to her.

"Come and see Constance's aunt," he invited. "We've no right to be
gossipping here all night."

Patricia sprang up with her eyes alight. "It's all come out right after
all," she whispered to herself. "Oh, how happy I am, and how hard I'll
try to study. I won't mind waiting a long, long time for the future. I
am so glad, glad, _glad_ that it's there!"

As she followed Bruce across the room her face was glowing with rosy
hope. She whispered to herself, "Some day I shall sing in the light,
too. And tomorrow I shall sing the little song Milano sang, and Judy
shall tell me that the ring has come back to it."

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