In Which a Long Name is Bestowed Upon a Beautiful Baby; and in Which a Letter in a Long Envelope Brings Freedom to Mary. CHAPTER XVII In Which an Artist Finds What All His Life He Has Been Looking For; and in Which He Speaks of a Little Saint in Red. CHAPTER XVIII In Which Mary Writes of the Workaday World; and in Which Roger Writes of the Dreams of a Boy. CHAPTER XIX In Which Porter Plants an Evil Seed Which Grows and Flourishes, and in Which Ghosts Rise and Confront Mary. CHAPTER XX In Which Mary Faces the Winter of Her Discontent; and in Which Delilah Sees Things in a Crystal Ball. CHAPTER XXI In Which a Little Lady in Black Comes to Washington to Witness the Swearing-in of a Gentleman and a Scholar. CHAPTER XXII In Which the Garden Begins to Bloom; and in Which Roger Dreamt. CHAPTER XXIII In Which Little-Lovely Leila Looks Forward to the Month of May; and in Which Barry Rides Into a Town With Narrow Streets. CHAPTER XXIV In Which Roger Comes Once More to the Tower Rooms; and in Which a Duel is Fought in Modern Fashion. CHAPTER XXV In Which Mary Bids Farewell to the Old Life, and in Which She Finds Happiness on the High Seas. CHAPTER XXVI In Which a Strange Craft Anchors in a Sea of Emerald Light; and in Which Mocking-Birds Sing in the Moonlight. Illustrations She flashed a quick glance at him . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ "What have I done?" "You don't know what you are doing." "Again I question your right." Contrary Mary CHAPTER I _In Which Silken Ladies Ascend One Stairway, and a Lonely Wayfarer Ascends Another and Comes Face to Face With Old Friends._ The big house, standing on a high hill which overlooked the city, showed in the moonlight the grotesque outlines of a composite architecture. Originally it had been a square substantial edifice of Colonial simplicity. A later and less restrained taste had aimed at a castellated effect, and certain peaks and turrets had been added. Three of these turrets were excrescences stuck on, evidently, with an idea of adornment. The fourth tower, however, rounded out and enlarged a room on the third floor. This room was one of a suite, and the rooms were known as the Tower Rooms, and were held by those who had occupied them to be the most desirable in the barn-like building. To-night the house had taken on an unwonted aspect of festivity. Its spaciousness was checkered by golden-lighted windows. Delivery wagons and automobiles came and went, some discharging loads of deliciousness at the back door, others discharging loads of loveliness at the front.