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"When is he going--your friend?" she one day asked her husband "For htfully"

"Not for a week yet, dear I can't understand; he gives you no trouble"

"No I should like him better if he did; if he were more like others,

and I had to plan somewhat for his comfort and enjoyment"

Gaston took his wife's pretty face between his hands and looked tenderly

and laughingly into her troubled eyes

They were ether in Mrs Baroda's

dressing-room

"You are full of surprises, ma belle," he said to her "Even I can never

count upon how you are going to act under given conditions" He kissed

her and turned to fasten his cravat before thepoor Gouvernail seriously andhe would desire or expect"

"Commotion!" she hotly resented "Nonsense! How can you say such a

thing? Commotion, indeed! But, you know, you said he was clever"

"So he is But the poor fellow is run down by overwork now That's why I

asked him here to take a rest"