Again the simple, frank dignity touched Margaret Moffatt with pleasurable liking.
"It's to be a hundred and fifty dollars a month and all expenses paid, Miss Glynn."
"A hundred and fifty? Oh! I cannot——"
"Doctor Ledyard arranged it with my father. You see, they know what you are to undergo. I rather incline to the belief that they consider they are making quite a bargain. I hate to see you cover your hair. Somehow you seem to be dimming the sunshine. Good-bye until——"
"Day after to-morrow."
"I will send a check to St. Albans to-night, Miss Glynn."
And she did. A check for two hundred dollars with a box of yellow roses—Sunrise roses they were called.
CHAPTER XIX
There are times in life, especially when one is young, that high peaks are the only landmarks in sight. Priscilla Glenn felt that henceforth her Road was to be a highway constructed in such a fashion that airy bridges would connect the lofty altitudes, and all below would exist merely as views.