Chapter 24 THE OPENING GATES

That evening Priscilla found a letter from her stepmother awaiting her-a briefly worded, urgent summons.

"Your cousin has not arrived, after all," it said. "Your father and I are greatly disappointed. Would it not be as well for you to return to town? You can scarcely, I fear, afford to waste your time in this fashion. Young Lord Harfield was as

            
            

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