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When she came back with his tea, Mr Tebrick said: "I shall not require you upstairs Pack your own things and tell Jaonette ready for you by seven o'clock to- to take you to the station I ao"

When she had gone Mr Tebrick took the tray upstairs For the first ot away, for he could see no sign of her anywhere But after ain a corner of the rooown, into which she had soht, but poor Mr Tebrick was altogether too distressed then or at any time afterwards to divert himself at such ludicrous scenes He only called to her softly: "Silvia--Silvia What do you do there?" And then in a an once uessed that his ould not like to go naked, notwithstanding the shape she was in Nothing would satisfy hi her dresses froht have been expected, they were too big for her now, but at last he picked out a little dressing-jacket that she was fond of wearing sos It was made of a flowered silk, trih to sit very well on her now

While he tied the ribands his poor lady thanked hientle looks and not without some modesty and confusion He propped her up in an arether, she very delicately drinking fro bread and butter froht, that his as still herself; there was so little wildness in her demeanour and soto run naked, that he was very h if they could escape the world and live always alone

Froardener speaking to the dogs, trying to quiet them, for ever since he had corowling, and all as he knew because there was a fox within doors and they would kill it