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"No; oh, no," explained Lady Wolfer "Miss Lorton has coht, and keep us so, I hope"

"Trust I'm included; want it," said Sir Archie--"want it badly"

"Oh, you're incorrigible--incorrigibly stupid, I mean," retorted Lady

Wolfer "She has come to take care of us--Wolfer and ravely "If it isn't a rude question, I

should like to ask: 'Who's goin' to take care of Miss Norton?'"

"Lorton, Lorton," corrected Lady Wolfer "And it is a rude question, to

which you won't get an answer Go downstairs and sht--delighted; but time's up, you know," he said; and, with a

bow to Nell, sauntered out

Lady Wolfer sat down at the desk, and wrote rapidly for a moment; then

she said casually--a little too casually, it would have struck a woreat friend of mine--and Lord Wolfer's," she added quickly

"He is an awfully nice man, and--and very useful He is a kind of tame

cat here, runs in and out as he likes, and plays escort when I's I hope you'll like hih he does clip his 'Gees'--sounds like a

pun, doesn't it?--and cuts his sentences short, he--he is very

good-natured and obliging"

"He seems so," said Nell, a little puzzled to understand why Lady Wolfer

did not take her s,