Following Madame Dolores’ advice Margaret, Mrs. Knickerbocker, Dunbar and the entire party sought in the beautiful cities between the North and the South Atlantic coast for “One with a red rose, in a cottage by the sea.” At Long Branch Margaret was introduced to John Stuyvesant, the son of Mrs. Knickerbocker’s old friend, Natalie Stuyvesant, who before her marriage was a Barasdale. Dunbar, not any too cordial to his rival in the first place, became enraged when Margaret went off for an automobile spin with the tall young society man. That evening Stuyvesant made considerable progress with Margaret in his quiet way. Dunbar sought trouble with the young New Yorker, and might have strangled him if Aunty had not come upon the scene. Fearing more trouble between the two aspirants for Margaret’s affections, Aunty next day requested the party to pack up. Then Margaret saw, standing on the porch of a cottage near the hotel, a woman of middle years walking up and down. In her corsage was the long-sought red rose. “Tell me,” inquired Margaret of the woman, “do you know Madame Dolores?” The woman smiled. “Yes, my child. She has told me of you, and I am to give you a message. A man who would marry you is threatened by great trouble and sorrow. I see a scandal hovering over him like a cloud. Beware, for if you marry him you share his humiliation.”