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And so easily it was all arranged Of course after she had seen me, heard me, felt the charm of me--of Her--Aunt Frank couldn't leave Her in the studio!

I'd have been glad to avoid the journey back to Union Square with John; for the evening, with all its perplexities, had been paradise, and I dreaded to have hiht to be more than usually tender towards John nohen he has just lost his mother; but when the Bakers' door had closed behind us, and we stood together under the crispy starlight--for it had cleared and turned cold during the evening--I talked feverishly of things that neither of us cared about, and kept it up all the way home

John scarcely seemed to listen toface gloith the ic of it As we approached the Square, he looked down at me, and slipped ers Through ave the hand a little, alht I to wear it?" I cried "Won't you help me think, just as if you didn't--didn't care? This isn't like last summer We are different; I aht, that I airl I've told you that I can't be certain; I a--all you told ht--darling!"

He held my hands e parted and looked intoHis love seemed too deep for any outburst of passion, or else he feared to alarm me; and yet he seemed so sure

I wish--I wish--oh, I don't knohat I wish; I ought not to be bound to any one; but I suppose I love John