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"Sometimes I think you are not very happy"

"I' to make him fall in love with irls do it It

isn't any moral sense that keeps me from it, either It's just pride"

"My dear!"

"And there's another angle to it I wouldn't ot

a mind of his own Even if I had the chance, which I haven't That silly

mother of his--she is silly, daddy, and selfish--Do you knohat she is

doing now?"

"We ought not to discuss her She--"

"Fiddlesticks You love gossip and you know it"

Her tone was light, but the rector felt that ar thatto uiltily

"But--are you sure she is doing that?"

"Everybody says so She thinks that if he is o if he has a wife" She was silent for a ht to the devil, daddy"

The rector reached up and took her hand She caredout, perhaps in the long

night--when he slept placidly Thought and suffered, he surain he remembered his worldly plans for her, and felt justly punished

"I suppose it is hard for a father to understand how any one can know