Chapter XVI

Through the next few days Hilda moved like one in a beautiful dream, from which she expected soon to wake into the regular drab-colored world where she belonged. But she dreamed with a smile on her lips and joy in her eyes. She was as lovely and unconscious of self as a girl could be, and more and more young Daniel Stevens’s mother was drawn to her. The young man had gone to his camp, and Hilda’s mother had received a summons to come to Philadelphia to try out for the position which Mr. Stevens senior had recommend…