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Edna was sitting on the tabouret, idly brushing the tips of a feather

duster along the carpet when he ca more you will let me do?" he asked

"That is all," she answered "Ellen canwo to be left alone

with Arobin

"What about the dinner?" he asked; "the grand event, the coup d'etat?"

"It will be day after to-morrow Why do you call it the 'coup d'etat?'

Oh! it will be very fine; all old, Sevres, flowers, ne to swim in I'll let Leonce

pay the bills I wonder what he'll say when he sees the bills

"And you ask me why I call it a coup d'etat?" Arobin had put on his

coat, and he stood before her and asked if his cravat was pluher than the tip of his collar

"When do you go to the 'pigeon house?'--with all due acknowledgment to

Ellen"