"What! another examination!" cried the mother, with horror.

"Oh, no, only a few details, princess.

" "Come this way.

" And the mother, accompanied by the doctor, went into the drawing room to Kitty.

Wasted and flushed, with a peculiar glitter in her eyes, left there by the agony of shame she had been put through, Kitty stood in the middle of the room.