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Tuesday o to bed, she insisted upon , and then after dinner I sat in an old but lovely wrap of white crêpe, and she brushed out my hair for more than an hour--there is such a tremendous lot of it, it takes ti-room fire and tried not to think One does feel a wretch after a scene like that At about half-past nine I heard noises in the passage of people, and with only a preliminary tap Robert and Lady Merrenden came into the room I started up, and Véronique dropped the brush in her astonish and excited, and Robert looked crazy with joy; he seized me in his arms, and kissedEvangeline! you plucky, clever girl! Tell us all about it!"

"About what?" I said, as soon as I could speak

"How you ed it"

"Oh, I must kiss her first, Aunt Sophia!" said Robert "Did you ever see anything so divinely lovely as she looks with her hair all floating like this, and it is all mine, every bit of it!"

"Yes, it is," I said, sadly, "and that is about all of value you will get"

"Co--and look at this"

Upon which he drew fro, and I shivered with excitean "I have seen her I a her to lunch to-morrow Yours, TORQUILSTONE"

I really felt so intensely moved I could not speak

"Oh, tell us, dear child, how did it happen, and what did you do, and where did you meet!" said Lady Merrenden

Robert held my hand

Then I tried to tell them as well as I could, and they listened breathlessly "I was very rude, I fear," I ended with, "but I was so angry"

"It is glorious," said Robert "But the best part is that you intended to give , that is the best gift of all!"

"Was it disgustingly selfish of me?" I said "But when I saw your poor brother so unhappy-looking, and soured, and unkind, with all his grandeur, I felt that to us, who knohat lovethat matters most in all the world"