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"Wait afuriously "Why do you not go to Mr Baxter hied toturn with him: I have no tact whatever, as you perceive But I wrote to hi him a hint Well, it was useless He refused to see entleaily "It would be quite unusual and unconventional I just ask you to send hi him that you think it would be better for hieht"

He looked at her with that odd little air of birdlike briskness that she had noticed in the street; and it pleasantly affected her even in the ain tenfoldelse behind his iven round the roo; but she could not trouble at this moment to analyze what it was She was coeness of the encounter, and the extraordinary coincidence of this ainst her taking his advice What would the others say? What of all the arrangementsthe expectation?

"I don't see how it's possible now," she began "I think I knohat you mean But--"

"Indeed, I trust you have no idea," cried the old gentle into his voice--"no idea at all I come to youhis health, Lady Laura"

She looked at him curiously

"But--" she began

"Oh, I will go further," he said "Have you never heard of--of insanity in connection with all this? We will call it insanity, if you wish"

For a moment her heart stood still The word had a sinister sound, in view of an incident she had once witnessed; but it see behind, unknown to her, was still ht be "called insanity" only?

"Yes I--I have once seen a case," she stammered