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Then his eyes flashed "Christopher had better be careful of himself! He will have to be answerable to eline dear," Lady Merrenden said, gayly, "or you will have Robert breaking the head of every lances at you He is frantically jealous"

"Yes, I know I a the tie on êne and possession that pleasesto hiht to retie it, no matter who is there That is his attitude--not the least cere perfectly sireeable When I was, "Miss Travers" and he "Lord Robert," he was always respectful and unfaer But now that I aeline and he is my Robert (thus he explained it to , but at the sa, just the same as his watch or his coat--I adore it--and it does not ht

"Come, come, children," Lady Merrenden said at last, "we shall all be late"

So we started, dropping Robert at Vavasour House on our way It is a splendid place, down one of those side streets looking on the Green Park, and has a sarden that side I had never been down to the little square where it is before, but, of course, every one can see its splendid frontage froh I had never realized it was Vavasour House

"Good luck!" whispered Lady Merrenden as Robert got out, and then we drove on

Several people were lunching at Carlton House Terrace: cabinet reat portrait painter, besides two or three char women--one as pretty and s, only so well htful lunch, and I tried to talk nicely and do my best to please an to feel excited, and long apprehensively for the arrival of Robert So we talked of the late guests

"It amuses my husband to see a number of different kinds of people," she said; "but we had nothing very exciting to-day, I h sometimes the authors and authoresses bore --one does not any longer care to read their books after seeing them"