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"Oh!" she exclaiht of hiht it was Cousin Kitty She proo without her She is awfully slow I saw you playing with Dick on the grass Heout like that, and you onlyup with him as you do Between you and that boy and father, with his constant, babyish coed his shoulders wearily, and sat down in a chair at her quaint ed ht been that of day, ht have remarked that she was thinner and more nervous Her eyes held a shadowy, unsatisfied expression, and her voice was keyed unnaturally high

Noticing his unwonted silence, she put down her hand-mirror and eyed hioing to- night," she said

"Hardly," he s quite uninvited"

"Well, you needn't say it in that tone," she answered "You have only yourself to blame You never accept such invitations, so how could you expect people to run after you with them?"

"I don't expect them to," he answered, tartly "If they askedat all"

"Of course you don't," she laughed "The last ti up and down all by yourself Kitty said you asked her to dance and forgot all about it Dick, your day is over"

"I wonder if yours ever will be," he sniffed "I see no prospect of it You are on the go night and day You are killing yourself It is as bad as the morphine habit with you You love admiration more than any woman I ever saw"

She arched her neck before the glass and turned to him wearily "Do you knohat you'll do in another usting rages over my own private affairs You are a business ree the positive compact between us"

"I didn't expect at the ti so constantly with a ly "You were to have all sorts of outside freedom, but I was not Well, you wereat You ht Why shouldn't I? He's got up the party for me Dick, don't tell me that you are actually jealous It would be too delicious for anything"