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Lady Luce came forward to him with both hands extended; and the "Drake,

thank God!" was perhaps as genuinely a devout an expression as she had

ever uttered For it seemed to her that Providence had especially

intervened in her behalf and sent him to her side We all of us have an

idea that Providence is more interested in us than in other persons

Drake stood and looked at her for an instant with the sanized her; then he took the sloved hands How could he refuse them? As he had said, the

h two of them had been

lovers and one had been jilted They had to meet as friends or

acquaintances, as individuals of a co for

pleasure, could not be bored by quarrels and estrangements

In the "smart" set a man lives not for himself alone, but for the other

men hom he plays and shoots and jokes and drinks; for the women

hom he drives and rides and dances He ,

likes and dislikes, or the social ship which he joins as one of the

crew, the ship which can sail only on smooth and sunlit waves, will

founder So Drake took her hands and s at her

"Why! To find you here! What are you doing here, Drake?" she said