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This merely confirmed her bad opinion of him . But she realized that young Thornton had been attracted by her , and she naughtily resolved to turn his attentions from the elegant Miss Harris to herself . When she went into her cabin to dress for their tea-party it was with the determination to teach the girl she disliked that Madge Morton , country-bred though she might be , was a force yet to be reckoned with . At two o'clock that afternoon Miss Jenny Ann and the four girls received their guests , and a little later tea was served on the deck at the dainty tea table under the big Japanese umbrellas . Madge , looking radiant in a little frock of white organdie dotted with tiny green leaves , poured the tea . Tom Curtis had brought with him four or five young men from the camp . Flora Harris , looking utterly bored , a faint smile of cynical amusement on her face , accompanied by her cousin , Alice Paine , had crossed the bay in a steam launch with Jimmie Lawton .