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A footure entered

"Mr Baxter, my lady Is your ladyship at home?"

"Mr Baxter--"

Mrs Stapleton rose

"Let me see him instead, dearest You rememberfrom Stantons"

"I wonder what he wants?" murmured the hostess "Yes, do see hi"

Then she was gone Mrs Stapleton sank into a chair again; and in ahands with her

Mrs Stapleton was accusto habit had learned how to flatter the to do so Laurie's type, however, was less farow their hair rather long and wear turn-down collars, and have just found out the hopeless banality of all orthodoxy whatever She even bore with them when they called themselves unmoral But she remembered Laurie, the silent boy at lunch last week, she had even mentioned hiirl, more or less correct She was also aware that he was a Catholic

She gave hi

"Lady Laura asked me to excuse her absence to you, Mr Baxter To be quite truthful, she is at hoone upstairs for her meditation"

"Indeed!"