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"You'll come, of course, Dr Anstice?" Iris asked the question one sunny afternoon as she prepared an iced drink for her visitor, after a strenuous game of tennis "You do dance, don't you? For my part I could dance for ever"

"I do dance, yes," he said, taking the tumbler she held out to him, with a word of thanks "But I don't think a ball is exactly in aily "Aunt Laura doesn't approve of oven a dance, seeing I'm not really 'out' till I've been presented next year--but Dad has been a perfect dear and says we can dance as long as we like down here where none of our London relations can see us!"

"Well, dance or ball, I suppose it will be a large affair?" He ser every day

"About a hundred and fifty, I suppose," she said lightly "The rooh an empty one would be almost worse Anyhow, you are invited, first of all Dinner is at seven, because ant to start dancing at nine Will you come?"

Just for a second he hesitated Then: "Of course I'll come," he said recklessly "But you ent telephone call and fly in the hed into his "That's rather greedy! Well--I'll give you two, and--perhaps--an extra"

"That's a pro out a small notebook hefrivolities, I o and continue my day's work"

He rose and looked round the lovely old garden rather regretfully

"How lucky you are to be able to spend the summer days in such a cool, shady spot as this! I wish you could see soo into round here--s hermetically sealed, and even the fireplaces, when there are any, blocked up!"

She looked at hiely

"Do you know Dr Anstice," she said, irrelevantly, it seeht to be a doctor Oh, I don't mean you aren't very clever--and kind--but so in and out of stuffy cottages and attending to little village children with h!"