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To see his wife casually in a crowd, and to fall desperately in love with

her for the second time, was a unique experience even in Tyson's life

But it had its danger He had never been jealous before; now a feeling

very like jealousy had been roused by seeing her with Stanistreet He had

followed her to the "Criterion"; he had hurried out before the end of the

piece, and hung about Ridg

Stanistreet's immediate departure was a relief to a certain anxiety that

he was base enough to feel And still there reue suspicion

and discoain with her In their first

courtship she was a child; in their second she was a woman Hitherto, the

creature of a day, she had see, without a ht of to-morrow; she had

had no past, not even an innocent one And now he had no notion what

experiences shethis year in which he

had left her That was her past; and they had the future before theether for three days, three days and three nights

of happiness; and on the evening of the fourth day Tyson had found her

reading--yes, actually reading!

He sat down opposite her to watch the curious sight

Perhaps she had said to herself: "Soly If I am stupid too, he will be bored, and perhaps

he will leaveto be his intellectual companion"