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Viola gloith joy over Kate's invitation to dinner, and, flying to the telephone (as she was requested to do), accepted without consulting either her mother or Clarke, and fell i enough to fit the golden opportunity

Mrs Lambert was also pleased, but at once said, "I hope Tony will feel like going"

Viola resented the i, anyhoill not be shut up here any longer like a convict I like Mrs Rice very much, and I want to see her house I knoill be just as nice as she is"

"But we can't go without Anthony, my dear"

Clarke came to the door a little later to say that he had received Mrs Rice's invitation, but that he did not care to feed the curiosity of such people "You would better plead a previous engage of the sort," she indignantly answered "Indeed, I've already accepted You needn't look black--I' in her look as well as in her tone convinced hi to restrain her, therefore he gave assent, gloomily and with a sense of loss "I don't kno Pratt will feel about it He don't like those people, and, besides, he has invited so to me about it," Viola responded, curtly, "and, besides, how can he expect me to be always at his command? He is not my jailer I'm tired of his demands, they are so unreasonable"

Mrs Lambert, as usual, entered to soothe and heal "Viola's been very good aboutMr Pratt's friends, Tony We've hardly been out to dinner since we cao out to-night"

"We ought to have Thursdays, anyway," the girl scornfully added "We have less liberty than ourintolerable"

Clarke acknowledged that Pratt deh to say: "It won't be necessary e the matter, and report what he says"

"I don't care what he says, I' if he locks us out I wish he would"

Pratt was resentful at once "I don't want her to go to-night I have so in to see her I don't want therieved because she has been kept so close here, and I must say--"