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"And then you quarrelled?"

"Nothing of the kind I wish you would stop trying to tellyou What happened was this: somehow--I can't make out how--mother found out And then, of course, it was all over She stopped the thing"

Sahly disliked his Aunt Adeline, and his cousin's meek subservience to her revolted him

"Stopped it? I suppose she said, 'Now, Eustace, you mustn't!' and you said, 'Very well, mother!' and scratched the fixture?"

"She didn't say a word She never has said a word As far as that goes she e"

"Then how do you mean she stopped it?"

"She pinched my trousers!"

"Pinched your trousers?"

Eustace groaned "All of the before I do, and she must have come into my room and cleaned it out while I was asleep When I woke up and started to dress I couldn't find a solitary pair of bags anywhere in the whole place I looked everywhere Finally, I went into the sitting-roo letters and asked if she had happened to see any anywhere She said she had sent them all to be pressed She said she knew I never went out in the s--I don't as a rule--and they would be back at lunch-time, A fat lot of use that was! I had to be at the church at eleven Well, I told her I had a ement with a man at eleven, and she wanted to knohat it was and I tried to think of so, but it sounded pretty feeble and she said I had better telephone to theup the first number in the book and told some fellow I had never seen in ing fro line Andthat she knew--so that I knew she knew--I tell you it ful!"

"And the girl?"

"She broke off the engagement Apparently she waited at the church froet impatient She wouldn't see ot a letter fro that what had happened was all for the best as she had been thinking it over and had come to the conclusion that she hadas dynaht I was She said that what she wanted was so more like Lancelot or Sir Galahad, and would I look on the episode as closed"