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She glanced at the clock

"Dear me! I must be off It's after five"

She paused before theherself in the mirror while she adjusted her veil The attitude revealed the long slope of her slender sides, which gave a kind of ood grace to her outline--as though she were a captured dryad subdued to the conventions of the drawing-room; and Selden reflected that it was the same streak of sylvan freedom in her nature that lent such savour to her artificiality

He followed her across the room to the entrance-hall; but on the threshold she held out her hand with a gesture of leave-taking

"It's been delightful; and now you will have to return my visit"

"But don't you want ood bye here, please"

She let her hand lie in his a ood luck at Bello she paused to look about her There were a thousand chances to one against heranybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence There was no one in sight, however, but a char-wo the stairs Her own stout person and its surrounding impleather up her skirts and brush against the wall As she did so, the wo her clenched red fists on the wet cloth she had just drawn frohtly pitted with sh which her scalp shone unpleasantly

"I beg your pardon," said Lily, intending by her politeness to convey a criticis, pushed her pail aside, and continued to stare as Miss Bart swept by with aunder the look What did the creature suppose? Could one never do the si one's self to soht, she smiled to think that a char-wo was probably dazzled by such an unwonted apparition But WERE such apparitions unwonted on Selden's stairs? Miss Bart was not familiar with the ain as it occurred to her that the wo past associations But she put aside the thought with a s if she should find a cab short of Fifth Avenue