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bespeak a play, and would confer with hientle Audrey

and Evelyn standing face to face in the sunny path "You are well, I

hope," said the latter, in her low, clear voice, "and happy?"

"I am well, Mistress Evelyn," answered Audrey "I think that I aazed at her in silence; then, "We have all been blind," she

said "'Tis not a year since May Day and the Jaquelins' er You won the race,--do you remember?--and took the prize

froht of all that should follow--did

we?--or guessed at other days I saw you last night at the theatre, and

you made my heart like to burst for pity and sorrow You were only playing

at woe? You are not unhappy, not like that?"

Audrey shook her head "No, not like that"

There was a pause, broken by Evelyn "Mr Haward is in town," she said, in

a low but unfaltering voice, "He was at the playhouse last night I

watched hi in a box, in the shadow You also saw him?"