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'What is the worst of it?'

'I'h ashamed of myself Yes, I am' And now Ruby burst out into tears 'Because I wouldn't have John Cruirl Nor yet I won't But what'll I do, if everybody turns against ht that--'

'Bother what she says!' Felix was not at all anxious to hear what aunt Pipkin ht too Of course she knows there's somebody She ain't such a fool as to think that I' woht to speak out his irl has todrink of brandy and water Having emptied the beaker before him, he rapped, for the waiter and called for another He intended to avoid the necessity ofto New York very shortly, and looked on his journey thither as an horizon in his future beyond which it was unnecessary to speculate as to any farther distance He had not troubled hione He had not even considered whether he would or would not tell her that he was going, before he started It was not his fault that she had coirl,' and he liked the feeling of the intrigue better, perhaps, than the girl herself But he assured hiive hi up to London in his wrath had never occurred to him,--or he would probably have hurried on his journey to New York instead of delaying it, as he was doing now 'Let's go in, and have a dance,' he said

Ruby was very fond of dancing,--perhaps liked it better than anything in the world It was heaven to her to be spinning round the big rooht round her waist, with one hand in his and her other hanging over his back She loved the th was great, and she never lacked breath She could spin along and dance a whole roo to give better worth having than that;--and such moments were too precious to be lost She went and danced, resolving as she did so that she would have some answer to her question before she left her lover on that night