“Please have the account sent to Miss Christina Wayne care of my address.”
“I hope we may provide some gowns for you, madame,” the Manageress said.
“I will certainly come to you as soon as I am ready to go into half-mourning,” Crisa promised.
She was bowed to the door and drove home to find that Matilda and the rest of the Vanderhault family were still at the bazaar.
Because they had so much to talk about when they returned, they were not aware that she had left the house in their absence.
To Crisa’s surprise, Mr. Krissam obviously did not tell them that she had been daring enough to do something on her own.
*
The following day Mr. Krissam brought her the passport she had asked for and, when he handed her the single sheet, she saw that it was signed by the British Ambassador on beha
