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"You could not be so cruel, Dora"

"I inable He was always trotting at their side They spoke of hi man' I have no doubt they were all in love with him I hope they were I used to pretend to be very much in love when they were present I dare say it ht me improper Basil didn't approve, either, so I hit all round"

She rose at this memory and shook out her silk skirts, and walked up and down the room with an air that was the visible expression of the mockery and jealousy in her heart This was an entirely different Dora to the lachrymose, untidy wife at the Savoy Hotel in London, and Ethel had awhich was responsible for the change

"If I had thought, Dora, you were so uncomfortable, I would have asked Basil and you to the Court"

"You saas not happy when I was at the Savoy"

"I thought you and Basil had had a kind of lovers' quarrel, and that it would blow over in an hour or two; no one likes toto Newport, or is Mrs Denning in New York?"

"That is another trouble, Ethel When I wroteto Lenox with a friend Then, like you, she said 'she had no liberty to invite me,' and so on I never knew mother act in such a way before I nearly broke my heart about it for a few days, then I , I a possible"

"I didn't want mother to be wise I wanted her to understand that I was fairly worn out with e I'm sure she did understand Then as she so cruel?" and she shrugged her shoulders impatiently and sat down "I'm so tired of life," she continued "When did you hear of Fred Mostyn?"

"I know nothing of his movements Is he in America?"

"Somewhere I asked mother if he was in Newport, and she never answered the ques-tion I suppose he will be in New York for the winter season I hope so"