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He was left hardly a moment to think of this Almost before the woman had shut the door, Mrs Hurtle came to hi could beprettier It was now June, and the weather arauzy black dress,--there is a fabric which theclose up round her throat It was very pretty, and she was prettier even than her dress And she had on a hat, black also, small and si to a theatre with a lady wishes her to be bright in her apparel,--aleous; in which he will hardly be contented unless her cloak be scarlet, and her dress white, and her gloves of soht hue,--unless she wear roses or jewels in her hair It is thus our girls go to the theatre nohen they go intending that all the world shall knoho they are But there are tiain in which a man would prefer that his companion should be very quiet in her dress,--but still pretty; in which he would choose that she should dress herself for him only All this Mrs Hurtle had understood accurately; and Paul Montague, who understood nothing of it, was gratified 'You told ave hihed, and looked pleasantly at hih there was no cause of unhappiness between the-house woman saw them enter the cab, and muttered some little word as they went off Paul did not hear the word, but was sure that it bore soe

Neither during the drive, nor at the dinner, nor during the performance at the theatre, did she say a word in allusion to her engagement It ith them, as in former days it had been at New York She whispered pleasant words to hier as she spoke, seeain she referred, after sohtest fashion, to little circumstances that had occurred between theht; but it was done as one ht do it to another,--if any man could have done it so pleasantly There was a scent which he had once approved, and now she bore it on her handkerchief There was a ring which he had once given her, and she wore it on the finger hich she touched his sleeve With his own hands he had once adjusted her curls, and each curl was as he had placed it She had a way of shaking her head, that was very pretty,--a way that e, as likely to betray those first grey hairs which will come to disturb the last days of youth He had once told her in sport to be ain, and, as he smiled, she told him that she could still dare to be careless There are a thousand little silly softnesses which are pretty and endearing between acknowledged lovers, hich no woman would like to dispense, to which even ht; but which in other circuar,--and to the woman distasteful There are closenesses and sweet approaches, ss, whispers, innuendoes and hints, little s known to those two happy ones of which the world beyond is altogether ignorant Much of this co of it sometimes comes by art Of such art as there may be in it Mrs Hurtle was a perfect ement,--not an unpleasant as spoken; but the art was practised with all its pleasant adjuncts Paul was flattered to the top of his bent; and, though the sas hanging over his head, though he knew that the sword ht,--still he enjoyed it