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his new huer than

any restraints of society, he would quite certainly have ence of her incorrigible vanity! To

get along, to save Natalie herself, he was stifling the best that was in

him, while Natalie-That was one view of it The other was that Natalie was as starved as

he was If he got nothing fro Hoas he to

blaerous paths, but he hie of the precipice, and looked down

Suddenly it occurred to him that perhaps, for once, Natalie was in

earnest Perhaps Rodney was, too Perhaps each of theer than the he knew of Natalie contradicted that She was not a wo with his honor, with

Rodney, with her own vanity

Going up-town that night he pondered the question of how to take up the

matter with her It would be absurd, under the circumstances, to take

any virtuous attitude He was still undetermined when he reached the

house

He found Marion Hayden there for dinner, and Graha on which ceased when he stood in the

doorway Natalie looked irritated, Grahahtly insolent and unusually handsome