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The Wetheralls alent to church They belonged to the vast group of hu to perfor puppets It is true that the Belloo to church; but others equally ie that God was included in their visiting-list They appeared, therefore, punctual and resigned, with the air of people bound for a dull "At Ho and pinning each other's veils and ribbons as they cao to church with her, they declared, and Lily was such a dear old duck that they didn't h they couldn't fancy what had put the idea in her head, and though for their own part they would much rather have played lawn tennis with Jack and Gwen, if she hadn't told the

The Misses Trenor were followed by Lady Cressida Raith, a weather-beaten person in Liberty silk and ethnological trinkets, who, on seeing the omnibus, expressed her surprise that they were not to walk across the park; but at Mrs Wetherall's horrified protest that the church was a ht of the other's heels, acquiesced in the necessity of driving, and poor Mr Gryce found hi off between four ladies for whose spiritual welfare he felt not the least concern

It ht have afforded him some consolation could he have known that Miss Bart had really o to church She had even risen earlier than usual in the execution of her purpose She had an idea that the sight of her in a grey gown of devotional cut, with her famous lashes drooped above a prayer-book, would put the finishing touch to Mr Gryce's subjugation, and render inevitable a certain incident which she had resolved should forether after luncheon Her intentions in short had never been laze of her exterior, was inwardly asherself, for entering into other people's feelings, if it served her now and then in sencies, hampered her in the decisive moments of life

She was like a water-plant in the flux of the tides, and today the whole current of herher toward Lawrence Selden Why had he come? Was it to see herself or Bertha Dorset? It was the last question which, at that ht better have contented herself with thinking that he had si summons of his hostess, anxious to interpose him between herself and the ill-humour of Mrs Dorset But Lily had not rested till she learned from Mrs Trenor that Selden had come of his own accord "He didn't even wire me--he just happened to find the trap at the station Perhaps it's not over with Bertha after all," Mrs Trenor e her dinner-cards accordingly