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"There is so in this I do not understand," said Frederic,

setting a chair for hiined that yours was a case of simple cold, and that

Mrs Mason advised you to remain indoors chiefly on account of the

weather It is raining hard!"

"I alad it is!" she replied, with the looht fros "And my throat isn't nearly so

painful as I o out

Parties are an awful bore when one is sad-hearted"

"You really ive ain at the laugh he could not suppress "But sadness and

you should not be thought of in the same week Honestly, now! is not

the iniht, at

the bottom of what appears to you a fathomless abyss of woe? Have

you tried the efficacy of rational consolation in the thought of how

many more parties there will be this winter to which you can wear