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"It's a bit of luck I hadn't expected, Audrey," he said, at last,

unsteadily

She turned about quite si

"I shall ith you," she said, with a flash of her old impertinence

"You have not asked me to, but I shall, anyhow Only don't call this

luck It isn't at all I walk here every Sunday, and every Sunday I say

to myself--he will think he needs exercise Then he alk, and the

likeliest place for hilanced up at hi "Don't pay

any attention to me, Clay I'm a little mad, probably You see"--she

hesitated--"I need my friends just now And when the very best of them

all hides away from me?"

"Don't say that I stayed away, because--" He hesitated

"I' before I met

Clare--I'll tell you about her presently--and I was saying toI didn't know just what

Happiness, maybe I've been careless and all that, but I've never been

wicked And yet I can look back, and count the really happy days of ers"

She held out one hand