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Lady Ver did not speak a word on the way back, and kissed idly as she went into her rooirl; don't think I aht" And so I crept up to bed

To-morrow is Saturday and my visit ends After my lunch with Lady Merrenden, I am a wanderer on the face of the earth

Where shall I wander to? I feel I want to go away by lish I want to forget what they look like; I want to shut out of roomed heads; I want--oh, I do not knohat I do want

Shall I o back to Paris to the lady he loves But I should have the life I like--and the Carruthers's emeralds are beautiful--and I love Branches--and--and---"Her ladyship would like to see you, miss," said a footman

So I went up the stairs

Lady Ver was in a darkened rooht down beyond the half-drawn blue silk curtains

"I have a fearful head, Evangeline," she said

"Then I will san to run over her forehead with the tips of irl," she said, "and you can't help it"

"I can't help what?"

"Being a witch I knew you would hurt me when I first saw you, and I tried to protectkind to you"

"Oh, dear Lady Ver!" I said, deeply moved "I would not hurt you for the world, and indeed you ain to the very letter--and spirit"

"Yes, I know you have to the letter, at least, but why did Robert go out of the box last night?" she deot a chill, did not he?" I replied, lamely She clasped her hands passionately

"A chill! You don't know Robert He never had a chill in his life," she said "Oh, he is the dearest, dearest being in the world He s honest He isn't vicious, and isn't a prig, and he knows the world, and he lives in its ways like the rest of us, and yet he doesn't begin by thinking every wo what little self-respect she may have left to her"