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"I'm sorry I was cross," she said with pretty contrition, but her

prettiness and contrition did not have their usual exhilarating effect

on Dick Lena even turned and laid her hand softly on his arm Still he

did not look at her

"I wasn't hurt by your crossness, dear," he said gently

Arooe separated the two

gardens, old-fashioned, with comfortable seats under wide trees on the

Percival place, elaborately Italian on Mr Early's doe of doing rowth

after rapid transit was invented, and had therefore never cribbed and

cabined its population into solid blocks of brick and iven everybody elbow-room, so that its residence district looked much

like the suburbs of older cities

So Dick and Lena went to dine with Mr Early, and the bride had the

thrilling delight of sitting between her world-famous host and an

equally illustrious scholar, who had his head with him, extra size, and

was plainly bored to death by his own erudition It was a large dinner,

and Lena was alert to study every one, both what he did and how he did

it; but chiefly, froht hand of her host;

did she watch Miss Madeline Elton, who sat near the middle of the table

on the other side, where Lena could study her face over a sea of

violets Lena was puzzled Madeline see than she remembered For an instant she wondered if her own

beauty, now tricked out by jewels, was not cheap beside Miss Elton's