Margie's Venture by Mary E. Ropes

MARGIE had letters from home regularly every week, and was eager for / the news as any schoolgirl, and of late there had been several matters / of more importance than usual.

At Monkston Manor there had been a very gay time indeed, for the house / had been full of staying company, and all sorts of parties were given / by way of entertainment. To these parties, of course, the Graylings / were all and always invited, and Fay especially wrote in raptures of / the "lovely time" they were having.