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'I don't think it has,' said Paul Montague very taton, but at last the cab reached the lodging-house door 'Yes, this is it,' she said 'Even about the houses there is an air of stiff-necked propriety which frightensout as she spoke, and he had already knocked at the door 'Come in for one moment,' she said as he paid the cab with the door in her hand It was near ed, hours do not matter The woman of the house, as respectability herself,--a nice kind ith five children, naain as he followed the lady into the sitting-roo it on to the sofa as he entered 'Shut the door for one moment,' she said; and he shut it Then she threw herself into his ar up into his face 'Oh Paul,' she exclai! Oh Paul, my love! I will not bear to be separated from you No, no;--never I swear it, and youI cannot do for love of you,--but to lose you' Then she pushed hiether 'But Paul, I ht It was to be an island in our troubles, a little holiday in our hard school-tiain soon,--will you not?' He nodded assent, then took her in his arms and kissed her, and left her without a word