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All through this exquisite little dinner Viola sat with a strengthening deterloomy prison-house on the Drive, a house in which there was neither wholesome conversation nor privacy nor order An ambition to live hurew each moment in definiteness She appreciated the delicacy of the centre-piece of reen a few flame-like jonquils She took a woman's joy in the immaculate napery and in the char was an art, and quite impossible without the personal touch of the mistress, and, as she looked across towards Kate's horatitude and love She could be trusted, this frank, laughing, graceful woman She represented a most modern union of housewife and intellectual companion No wonder Dr Serviss re face, loo darkly at Kate's side, was revealed to her in a new and lances, and pitied his failure to glow in such genial coot, narrow and repulsive She resented his failure to subordinate his theories Up to this an to realize that she had lost even that, and the thoughtHow different were the men of science, with their jocular, irrelevant, but always illu coo with them, and yet they were quite as serious as he

As the coffee came in Kate rose with a word of caution: "Morton, we'll expect you to join us soon--"

"You may depend upon us," replied Weiss subjects--save some of them for us to hear"

"We shall not be able to talk on any other subject than yourselves," retorted Weissood for you to hear"

Kate laughed "I knohat thatcreatures Well, I will not complain if she only shakes you out of your scientific complacency"

They were hardly out of the room before Weissmann asked, "Is Miss Lambert from the West?"

"Fro"

Morton dryly answered: "I noticed that Yes, she's Western born, but of Eastern stock Mr Clarke is a New-Yorker, I believe"

"I was born in Maryland, sir, but all my early life was spent in Brooklyn"

Weissmann turned his telescopic eyes upon Clarke and studied hiard a clam "So, so," he said, softly "You are the one who is preparing to assault the scientific world--the Clarke mentioned in the papers to-day?"