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The Little Blue Devil

but in the meanwhile I can understand and sympathise with your wish to be independent.”

A weight was lifted from Pamela’s heart as she read. To go away with Miss Sidmouth would be so much better than to stay with any of her other friends, all of whom, she knew, would at heart consider her affected and absurd. But to be quite independent—to travel as plain Miss Learmonth, companion to her mother’s old friend—it would be strange—it might be very dull—but she would be able to breathe again.

The light came back to her eyes, and she went downstairs to break the news to Aunt Sophia.

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