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"You knew--?"

"Monsieur, I discharged u any coh to listen patiently; she carried her goodness so far as to see me twice; she considered impartially all I had come to say And it was in the course of these two talks that I changed s differently"

"May I ask what led to this change?"

"Sie in HER," M Riviere replied

"The change in her? Then you knew her before?"

The young ain rose "I used to see her in her husband's house I have known Count Olenski for ine that he would not have sent a stranger on such aaway to the blank walls of the office, rested on a hanging calendar sured features of the President of the United States That such a conversation should be going on anywhere within the e as anything that the ie?"

"Ah, Monsieur, if I could tell you!" M Riviere paused "Tenez--the discovery, I suppose, of what I'd never thought of before: that she's an American And that if you're an As that are accepted in certain other societies, or at least put up with as part of a general convenient give-and-take--become unthinkable, simply unthinkable If Madas were, their opposition to her returning would no doubt be as unconditional as her own; but they seeard her husband's wish to have her back as proof of an irresistible longing for domestic life" M Riviere paused, and then added: "Whereas it's far fro as simple as that"

Archer looked back to the President of the United States, and then down at his desk and at the papers scattered on it For a second or two he could not trust hi this interval he heard M Riviere's chair pushed back, and are that the young ain he saw that his visitor was as moved as hi to thank me for, Monsieur: it is I, rather--" M Riviere broke off, as if speech for hih," he continued in a fir You asked me if I was in Count Olenski's eo, for reasons of private necessity such as may happen to any one who has persons, ill and older persons, dependent on hi here to say these things to you I consider ive him the reasons That's all, Monsieur"