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"New York--New York--but must it be especially New York?" he sta his native city could offer to a young ood conversation appeared to be the only necessity

A sudden flush rose under M Riviere's sallow skin "I--I thought it your metropolis: is not the intellectual life ive his hearer the i asked a favour, he went on hastily: "One throws out randoestions--more to one's self than to others In reality, I see no i from his seat he added, without a trace of constraint: "But Mrs Carfry will think that I ought to be taking you upstairs"

During the homeward drive Archer pondered deeply on this episode His hour with M Riviere had put new air into his lungs, and his first impulse had been to invite hi to understand why married men did not always i tutor is an interesting felloe had sos," he threw out tentatively in the hansom

May roused herself from one of the dreas before six iven him the key to them

"The little Frenchman? Wasn't he dreadfully couessed that she nursed a secret disappointyman and a French tutor The disappointment was not occasioned by the sentiment ordinarily defined as snobbishness, but by old New York's sense of as due to it when it risked its dignity in foreign lands If May's parents had entertained the Carfrys in Fifth Avenue they would have offered the more substantial than a parson and a schoole, and took her up

"Common--common WHERE?" he queried; and she returned with unusual readiness: "Why, I should say anywhere but in his school-room Those people are always aard in society But then," she added disarly, "I suppose I shouldn't have known if he was clever"

Archer disliked her use of the word "clever" alinning to fear his tendency to dwell on the things he disliked in her After all, her point of view had always been the sa, and he had always regarded it as necessary but negligible Until a few o he had never known a "nice" woman who looked at life differently; and if athe nice