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When we had finished our task she rose--

"If you don't mind, as it is Saturday I have promised Burton"--and she

looked at hi the sun--"to do

up the accounts and prepare the cheques for you to sign-- So I will go

in now and begin"

I wanted to say "Dao--I ame, not the hare She smiled faintly--the third

smile--as she made me a little bow, and walked off

After a few paces she caain

"May I ask Burton for the bread ticket I lent you on Thursday," she

said--"No one can afford to be generous with thehted at this I would have been delighted at anything which

kept her with me an extra minute

I watched her as she disappeared doards the Reservoirs with

longing eyes, then I must have dozed for a while, because it was a

quarter to five when I got back to -room

And when I was safely in my chair there was a knock on the door, and in

she came--with a cheque-book in her hand Before I opened it or even