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"Don't you ever h to buy all the books you want?"

He followed her glance about the room, with its worn furniture and shabby walls

"Don't I just? Do you taketo work--do you mind that?"

"Oh, the work itself is not so bad--I' tied down: the routine--don't you ever want to get away, to see new places and people?"

"Horribly--especially when I see allto the steah--to et out of it?"

Selden broke into a laugh "God forbid!" he declared

She rose with a sigh, tossing her cigarette into the grate

"Ah, there's the difference--a girl must, a man may if he chooses" She surveyed him critically "Your coat's a little shabby--but who cares? It doesn't keep people fro you to dine If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as round, the frame, if you like: they don't y woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop--and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership"

Selden glanced at her with amuse him, to take a sentimental view of her case

"Ah, well, there must be plenty of capital on the look-out for such an investht at the Trenors'"

She returned his look interrogatively

"I thought youthere--oh, not in that capacity! But there are to be a lot of your set--Gwen Van Osburgh, the Wetheralls, Lady Cressida Raith--and the George Dorsets"

She paused a h her lashes; but he reet away till the end of the week; and those big parties bore o?"

"It's part of the business--you forget! And besides, if I didn't, I should be playing bezique with s"

"That's alreed, and they both laughed for pure pleasure in their sudden intimacy