Added to the card was a personal note from Mrs.
Howlett to Miss Andrews, expressing the especial hope that she would
not fail them, all of which was very gratifying to the young girl.
"See what I've got," she cried, gleefully, running into Mrs.
Willard's "den" at the head of the beautiful oaken stairs.
(Note.--At this point in Harley's manuscript there is evidence of
indecision on the author's part. His heroine had begun to bother him
a trifle. He had written a half-dozen lines descriptive of Miss
Andrews's emotions at receiving a special note of invitation,
subsequently erasing them. The word "gleefully" had been scratched
out, and then restored in place of "scornfully," which had at first
been substituted for it. It was plain that Harley was not quite
certain as to how much a woman of Miss Andrews's type would care for
a special attention of this nature, even if she cared for it at all.
As a matter of fact, the word chosen should have been "dubiously,"
and neither "gleefully" nor "scornfully"; for the real truth was that
there was no reason why Mrs.
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