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elbows on the table, watching the child eat When he said, "To your

party to-night," she sat up in astonished dis? Oh, dear!"

she ended, tears of distress standing in her eyes

David continued to eat his rice pudding "Can I sit up till nine?"

Mrs Richie pushed her chair back froht her lower

lip between her teeth What should she do? But even as she asked

herself the question, Dr King stood, s, in the French

that opened on to the lawn

"May I co had risen in William's mind; perhaps a

complete surprise would not be pleasant Perhaps she would rather have

an idea of as going to happen Perhaps sheAnd so he dropped in to give a hint: "Half a dozen

of us are coht to say how-do-you-do," he confessed,

("Whew! she doesn't need to dress up," he commented inwardly) The red

rose in her hair and her white cross-barred ant to William He was so lost in adry astonishment escaped him