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She blushed a little under his gaze "You think me horribly sordid, don't you? But perhaps it's rather that I never had any choice There was no one, I mean, to tell me about the republic of the spirit"

"There never is--it's a country one has to find the way to one's self"

"But I should never have found n-posts--but one has to kno to read thelow of eagerness "Whenever I see you, I find n--and yesterday--last evening at dinner--I suddenly saw a little way into your republic"

Selden was still looking at her, but with a changed eye Hitherto he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic amusement which a reflective man is apt to seek in desultory intercourse with pretty wo spectatorship, and he would have been almost sorry to detect in her any emotional weakness which should interfere with the fulfilment of her aims But now the hint of this weakness had beco about her He had co in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the dinant charm THAT IS HOW SHE LOOKS WHEN SHE IS ALONE! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coer-point of their intercourse that he could not doubt the spontaneity of her liking Fro intimacy, he could not see it as part of her scheme of life; and to be the unforeseen ele even to a man who had renounced sentimental experiments

"Well," he said, "did itto becoarettes as he spoke, and she reached her hand toward the case

"Oh, do give me one--I haven't smoked for days!"

"Why such unnatural abstinence? Everybody s in a JEUNE FILLE A MARIER; and at the present moment I am a JEUNE FILLE A MARIER"

"Ah, then I'm afraid we can't let you into the republic"

"Why not? Is it a celibate order?"