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"You don't think there ever is?" she asked absently

"No," William said "I suppose you'll think I'm very old-fashioned,

but I don't, unless--" he stopped short; he could not have put his

qualifying thought into words to any woirl in spite of her thirty-odd years "You see," he

said, aardly, "it's such an unusual thing It never happened in Old

Chester; why, I don't believe I ever saw a--a divorced person in my

life!"

"Well," she said, "anyhow, I didn't get a divorce"

"Mrs Richie!" he said, blushing to his te?"

But it was plain that she regretted her confidence; she rose with the

evident purpose of changing the subject "I o and put in some