When Jessie Ward got off the train at Wakefield this morning, she didn't go immediately to the Calvert real estate and loan company, but went first to her apartment, where she changed, dressing carefully and slowly. Miss Ward took a perverse delight in prolonging the moment before her encounter with Ben Calvert, savoring its outcome in advance. As she thought of how Ben had used his daughter's return to Wakefield and her coming marriage as an excuse to break things off between them, Jessie smiled to herself. It had taken many months, but now it was her turn to use Kit as a means of satisfying her ambition...