Joscelyn went but she left consternation behind her.
Joscelyn had disgraced them; could that be forgiven?
Joscelyn rebelled, but she did nothing secretly ... that was not her nature.
"Aunt Annice sent it to me," answered Joscelyn, casting a quick glance at the book on the table.
Pauline was a quiet, docile maiden, industrious and commonplace--just such a girl as they had vainly striven to make of Joscelyn, to whom Pauline had always been held up as a model.
She had all her mother's gifts, deepened by her inheritance of Morgan intensity and sincerity ... much, too, of the Morgan firmness of will. When Joscelyn Morgan was twenty-two she was famous over two continents.
At the end of that time Elinor Morgan, the mother of an hour, died; three months later Paul Morgan was killed in a railroad collision. After the funeral Cyrus Morgan brought home to his wife their son's little daughter, Joscelyn Morgan.