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"What are you doing out here, Edna? I thought I should find you in bed,"

said her husband, when he discovered her lying there He had walked up

with Madame Lebrun and left her at the house His wife did not reply

"Are you asleep?" he asked, bending down close to look at her

"No" Her eyes gleaht and intense, with no sleepy shadows, as

they looked into his

"Do you know it is past one o'clock? Come on," and he mounted the steps

and went into their room

"Edna!" called Mr Pontellier froone

by

"Don't wait for h the door

"You will take cold out there," he said, irritably "What folly is this?

Why don't you come in?"

"It isn't cold; I have my shawl"

"The mosquitoes will devour you"

"There are noabout the roo ione in at his request She

would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of

subly, as

alk, h the daily treadmill of the life