The Silver Sty

Sarah Silver, with plenty of money and a companion whom she could twist round her little linger, was getting on very nicely in the absence of the guardian who had been abroad for so long and whose interest in her had been confined to the paying of school bills and the writing of a few impersonal business letters. She was determined that his visit to the pretentious Silver house should be a short one, and had thought of one or two ingenious plans for making it so. Unhappily she gave herself away in an unguarded moment — and after that, the battle was on!