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"I say, do look at her," he exclai your pardon, but do just look ata fool of that poor devil over there! One would really suppose she was gone on him--and it's all the other way round, I assure you"

Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr Dorset such legitimate mirth It certainly appeared, as he said, that Mrs Dorset was the hbour seemed to receive her advances with a temperate zest which did not distract hiood huuise which Mr Dorset's aily: "Aren't you horribly jealous of her?"

Dorset greeted the sally with delight "Oh, aboht The doctors tellso infernally jealous of her--I can't eat aback his plate with a clouded countenance; and Lily, unfailingly adaptable, accorded her radiant attention to his prolonged denunciation of other people's cooks, with a supplementary tirade on the toxic qualities of melted butter

It was not often that he found so ready an ear; and, being a rievances into it he was not insensible to its rosy sy that the sweets were being handed when she caught a phrase on her other side, where Miss Corby, the co Jack Stepney on his approaching engagement Miss Corby's role was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring

"And of course you'll have Si out as the clinostications; and Stepney responded, as if struck: "Jove, that's an idea What a thuet out of him!"

SIM ROSEDALE! The name, made hts like a leer It stood for one of the e of life If she did not ht come when she would have to be civil to such men as Rosedale IF SHE DID NOT MARRY HIM? But she meant to marry him--she was sure of him and sure of herself She drew back with a shiver fro, and set her feet oncewhite road When she went upstairs that night she found that the late post had brought her a fresh batch of bills Mrs Peniston, as a conscientious woman, had forwarded them all to Bellomont