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By evening Mrs Page had worked herself into a state bordering on hysteria

Harriet was out ave her a cup of tea At the news of her sister's condition, she ed her shoulders

"She'll not die, Katie," she said cal, and if she is worried tell her I said to get Dr Ed"

Very significant of Harriet's altered outlook was this casual su of

the Street's faures A

sort of recklessness had co that peace of mind is essential to successful endeavor Somewhere

Harriet had read a quotation from a Persian poet; she could not reh we spill a few grains

of corn, or drops of oil from the cruse? These be the price of peace"

So Harriet, having spilled oil from her cruse in the shape of Dr Ed,

departed blithely The recklessness of pure adventure was in her blood

She had taken rooms at a rental that she determinedly put out of her mind,

and she was on her way to buy furniture No pirate, fitting out a ship for

the highways of the sea, ever experienced ed away Dr Ed was out "on a case" andSidney sat in the darkened rooid form