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44 A Fair Fraud rather wistfully and sadly after the trio as they went off presently down the avenue to- wards the frozen lake with their skates jingling merrily in their hands. Yet she liked Hester Lane better after that little talk. ‘I believe I wronged her,’ she thought. ‘She is not so insincere as her mother, | fancy, and there is something about her more interesting than I thought at first. At any rate, she is no fool. Still, I wish she had not made fun of Aunt Fanny.’ And she varied backwards and forwards in her opinion of these two ladies during the next three days, sometimes feeling absolutely repelled by them both—at other times strangely attracted, first by one and then by the other. They were rather a dull three days to Marion. Every day Kenneth and his two friends were out all day, skating or bicycling as the case might be, from breakfast to lunch, and again from after lunch until the short winter days drove them in again for afternoon tea. The evenings, of course, were spent in the house; but although Marion, by Miss Lane’s special request, joined the rest of the party at dinner and in the evening, she did not derive much pleasure from the society of the others. At dinner, as was her wont, Marion sat silent and observant, only speaking when she GOMMGIOO oO C' Q)