The discovery of Damaris

It was her own room, and in the soft spring sunshine of that March afternoon it looked very attractive and comfortable. A thick Persian carpet was underfoot; the walls were cove...

It was Stevens who came in upon Damaris as she was working in her quiet upper room. The girl was feeling dull and rather flat. Dane had been with them as an inmate of their home...

IT was the next morning that Damaris sat at her mother's escritoire. There were some old papers in it, and the little drawers needed tidying. But she found nothing of any value—...

her old home penniless? If any harm comes to her, you will be the cause of it. You've treated her as no gentleman would treat a dog. You forced yourself upon her when you though...

She stepped out on the platform with a brave heart, and looked around her. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, and on this June day the sun was beating down fiercely on the d...

On Sunday, she went to church in the morning. The country service was a novelty to her after the fashionable churches she had frequented in town. She sat well back in the church...

"If I could only see him! And if my aunt were more approachable! I wonder if I had better confide in Mrs. Dashwood. I don't know why I feel so shy about mentioning the subject....

Barbara and Stuart were in the big dining-room at breakfast. Sir Mark was not down. He often had his breakfast in his room, and this was one of the occasions when he did so. It...

WHEN Damaris reached town, she took a bed-room for herself at the Paddington Hotel. She was so uncertain about her movements that she only booked it for one night. Her idea was...

IT was Miss Hardacre's birthday. Damaris had gone out early and bought her a lovely bunch of flowers. She was getting really attached to the quiet little uncomplaining woman, bu...

"You are under no compulsion to dine at your boarding-house to-night," said Stuart, "Send a wire to them. Here is a form, and the hall porter will send it off."

"I'll say good-bye. I won't come in with you. I've done my part. I promised Barbara to find you and bring you back to them again, and I've done it. And you must forgive my summa...

THAT first evening at the Hall seemed to Damaris like a dream. But her nervousness and dread disappeared. She realised that her aunt was neither antagonistic nor indifferent to...

IT was a gusty October afternoon. The wind was whirling yellow-brown leaves along the roads, shrieking through the half-clad trees, and howling down the old chimneys at the Hall...

AUTUMN gave place to winter. November was a wet cold month, then December came in with a long spell of frost, and all hunting was stopped. Barbara was more at home, and there we...

Damaris and Sir Mark were breakfasting together. It was a lovely morning, the beginning of April. It was hardly an opportune moment, for Sir Mark was always short-tempered when...

"Oh, how good of you! How pleased I am to see you! You always seem to turn up when I am in the depths. How is grandfather? I am so anxious."

A radiant Damaris was hugging Miss Hardacre at the station. It was five o'clock, and a hot August afternoon. The sun blazed down upon the platform, and, to Damaris's eyes, Miss...

ONE autumn afternoon, Damaris took the dogs out for a run over the common. The heather was dying, but the golden bracken and the late gorse seemed to gild the scene, and the tre...