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Lady Laura Bethell, spinster, had just returned to her house in Queen's Gate, with her dearest friend, Mrs Stapleton, for a few days of psychical orgy It was in her house, as much as in any in London, that thewo hair and cloaks; and it was in her drawing-room that tea and Queen cakes were dispensed to inquirers, and papers read and discussed when the revels were over

Lady Laura herself was not yet completely erave-clothes of so-called Revelation To her it sees could be true and untrue siht be facts on This Side, as she would have expressed it, ht be falsehoods on the Other She was accustomed, therefore, to attend All Saints', Carlton Gardens, in the , and to declare to her friends how beautifully the one aspect illuminated and interpreted the other

For the rest, she was a small, fair-haired woold pince-nez, and an exquisite taste in dress

The tere seated this Tuesday evening, a week after Mrs Stapleton's visit to the Stantons, in the drawing-room of the Queen's Gate house, over the remnants of what corresponded to five-o'clock tea I say "corresponded," since both of them were sufficiently advanced to have renounced actual tea altogether Mrs Stapleton partook of a little hot water out of a copper-jacketed jug; her hostess of boiled s were considered iht

At this instant they were discussing Mr Vincent

"Dearest, he seems to me so different from the others," mewed Lady Laura "He is such a man, you know So often those others are not quite like men at all; they wear such funny clothes, and their hair always is so queer, soreat deal of that about James Vincent Even dear Tom was almost polite to hiht they were going to paw him"

"And then his powers," continued Lady Laura--"his powers always seenetism is so much more evident"

Mrs Stapleton finished her hot water

"We are going on Sunday?" she said questioningly

"Yes; just a small party And he comes here toyman I know in to ious teachers should know so little of what is going on"