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He rose at once, holding out his hands to aid her in that pleasantly iether in the purple dusk of the uplands--two people young enough to take one another seriously

"Lethim, white hands loosely linked behind her "I don't exactly understand how it has happened, but you knoell as I do that we have formed a--an acquaintance--the sort that under nor time and several conventional and preliminary chapters … I should like to knohat you think of our perfor"

"Oh, yes; reeable What I want to knohy I find it so, too?"

"Do you?" A dull colour stained his cheek-bones

"Certainly I do Is it because I've had a delightful chance to admonish a sinner--and be--just a little sorry--that he hada trifle

"Hence this agreeably righteous glow suffusing me," she concluded "So now that I have answered o … Don't you?"

They walked for a while, subdued, soberly picking their path through the dusk After a few an to feel doubtful, a little uneasy, partly from a reaction which was natural, partly because she was not at all sure what either Quarrier or Major Belwether would think of the terms she was already on with Siward Suppose they objected? She had never thwarted either of these gentlemen Besides she already had a temporary interest in Siward--the interest that women always cherish, quite unconsciously, for the s they have consented to overlook

As they crossed the headland, through the deepening dusk the acetylene laht across the scrub The s of Shotover House were brilliantly illu-party has returned," she said

They crossed the drive through the white glare of the uns and fluffy bunches of game-birds, several wo-tweeds or khaki

As they entered the hall together, she turned to hi her lips; then, with a little nod, friendly and sweet, she left hiun-room