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When the weather was dark and cloudy Edna could not work She needed the

sun topoint She had reached

a stage when she see, when

in the hu devoid of a not toward accomplishment, she drew satisfaction from the work

in itself

On rainy or ht the society of

the friends she had made at Grand Isle Or else she stayed indoors

and nursed atoo familiar for her own

comfort and peace of mind It was not despair; but it see its promise broken and unfulfilled

Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by

fresh proain to the races, and again Alcee Arobin and Mrs Highca Mrs Highcaent, slim, tall blonde woman in the

forties, with an indifferent hter who served her as a pretext for cultivating the society of

young men of fashion Alcee Arobin was one of theure at the race course, the opera, the fashionable clubs There was

a perpetual smile in his eyes, which seldo cheerfulness in any one who looked into theood-humored voice His manner was quiet, and at tiure, a pleasing face, not overburdened

with depth of thought or feeling; and his dress was that of the

conventionalher at the races with her

father He had met her before on other occasions, but she had seemed to