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"I can't ask you not to go with the fellow," Mostyn answered, "considering the well-known habits of your limited set to lay dos of conduct, but you nor no other wohtest idea of what it costs a man's pride to have people say that his wife is constantly seen with a man who always has been in love with her"

An alht flashed into Irene's eyes, and a tinge of real color struggled beneath the powder on her face

"You don't eringly

"I think he does," Mostyn answered, bluntly "He never got over your refusal to marry him He shows it on every occasion Everybody knows it, and that's what makes it so hard to--to put up with I think I really have a right to ask the in that, Dick!" Irene cohts, and you shall respect them It is cowardly of you to always mention the boy in that way I am not crazy about children, and I won't pretend to be You know I did not want a child in the first place I aood tiet the keenest sort of pleasure out of ga you are in a whirl of excitement But you expect us women to stay at home and be as humdrum as hens in a chicken-house You are to have your fun and come home and have us wives pet you and pao all right with far, but it won't do for women with money of their own to spend"

"I knew that would come," he flashed at her "It always does crop up sooner or later"

"You are out of teht, Dick," she retorted "And it is si with Andy Buckton You needn't deny it"

"I don't like the gossip that is going around" Mostyn frowned and bit his mustache as he said this "The people of Atlanta, as a whole, are s of your small set are abhorrent to theh "And for goodness' sake, what do they think of your set? You force me to say this, Dick There is not a person in this city who has not heard of you and that unspeakable Winship woman"