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He declared himself entirely at her disposal: the adventure struck hi As a spectator, he had always enjoyed Lily Bart; and his course lay so far out of her orbit that it amused him to be drawn for a moment into the sudden intio over to Sherry's for a cup of tea?"

She srimace

"So many people come up to town on a Monday--one is sure to meet a lot of bores I'ht not to h, you're not," she objected gaily "I' for tea--but isn't there a quieter place?"

He answered her smile, which rested on him vividly Her discretions interested him almost as much as her imprudences: he was so sure that both were part of the sa Miss Bart, he had always n"

"The resources of New York are rather re," he said; "but I'll find a hansoh the throng of returning holiday-irls in preposterous hats, and flat-chested wo with paper bundles and paled to the sae section of wohly specialized she was

A rapid shower had cooled the air, and clouds still hung refreshingly over the moist street

"How delicious! Let us walk a little," she said as they eed from the station

They turned into Madison Avenue and began to stroll northward As she ht step, Selden was conscious of taking a luxurious pleasure in her nearness: in theof her little ear, the crisp upave of her hair--was it ever so slightly brightened by art?--and the thick planting of her straight black lashes Everything about her was at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine He had a confused sense that she reat ly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her He are that the qualities distinguishing her froh a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay Yet the analogy left hih finish; and was it not possible that the material was fine, but that circumstance had fashioned it into a futile shape?