"I'll tell you something," she cried.

"Yes--yes; quickly, the train is just off."

"If my father had been alive, and we'd been living here, you'd not
have dared to speak to me like that; in fact, you wouldn't have had
the chance."

It was a crestfallen, tired, and heartsick Mavis who opened the door
of Brandenburg College with her latch-key in the evening. The only
thing that sustained her was the memory of the white look of anger
which appeared in Lowther Devitt's face when she had unmistakably
resented his insult.




CHAPTER FOUR

MAVIS LEAVES HER NEST


Mavis did not tell the whole truth to the two old ladies; they
gathered from her subdued manner that she had not been successful in
her quest.

The girl was too weary to give explanations, to talk, even to think;
the contemplation of the wreck of the castles that she had been
building in the air had tired her: she went to bed, resolving to put