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Ailsa crept back to the house again and up to her studio. She was not in the least afraid of being found out. Nobody at No. 14 was likely to hear of her escapade. The place looked more than unusually dreary and desolate in the small hours, but the girl was not afraid--she had too much to occupy her attention.
More than once she had fought rebelliously with the dreary solitude of her life. She had pictured herself as going mad in that desolate place.