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"What is your objection, chick?" he asked

"It would give Doctor Berkeley such a fearful lot of work," she answered

"It would give him a fearful lot of pleasure," I said "It would, really"

"Then why not?" said Mr Bellinghaation to the Doctor, do we?"

"Oh, it wasn't that!" she exclaimed hastily

"Then take him at his word Heit, I'ht, Doctor; she accepts, don't you, chick?"

"Yes, if you say so, I do; and racious se payements, I hurried away in a state of the 's work and order an early lunch

When I called for her a couple of hours later I found her waiting in the garden with the shabby handbag, of which I relieved her, and we set forth together, watched jealously by Miss Oate

As I walked up the court with this wonderful ood fortune By her presence and lorified and the cos of beauty What a delightful thoroughfare, for instance, was Fetter Lane, with its quaint chare-laden atmosphere and seemed to breathe the scent of the asphodel Holborn was even as the Elysian Fields; the olory; and the people armed verminously on the paveht

Love is a foolish thing judged by workaday standards, and the thoughts and actions of lovers foolish beyondone, after all; for the utilitarian mind does but busy itself with the trivial and transitory interests of life, behind which loo reality of the love of ale's song in the hush of a suht than in all the wisdom of Solomon (who, by the as not without his little experiences of the tender passion)

The janitor in the little glass box by the entrance to the library inspected us and passed us on, with a silent benediction, to the lobby, whence (when I had handed od and received a talise) we entered the enor-room