Saved from herself

CHAPTER I.

THE THEATER.

“I don’t see,” said Mrs. Trelane discontentedly, “why the woman could not have kept you.”

She spoke to her own reflection in the glass with an angry frown. What was the good of an exquisite toilet, of a face that did not look within ten years of its age, when seated on the sofa opposite was a grown-up daughter whose presence in the house might spo...