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"Really!" I led," said Mrs Fyne She

compressed her lips for aa

comedian that's another question"

Mrs Fyne had returned to her attitude of folded arhter of the refined poet accepting life whole with its

unavoidable conditions of which one of the first is the instinct of self-

preservation and the egois creature "The fact remains

nevertheless that you--yourself--have, in your oords, pulled her in,"

I insisted in a jocular tone, with a serious intention

"What was one to do," exclaimed Mrs Fyne with al too i me that she was not that in the least One of

the recoirl-friends, I

iainst impulse Always! But I had not been

there to see the face of Flora at the ti me to this day Nobody unlesswith a face like that to rush out alone into the streets