Good-night for the present; you'll be round by and by ?" "Yes, for a little while, after we close up," said he, and took himself off, not too suddenly, walking straight and proud while her eyes were on him, throwing her a kiss from the corner; but his step lagging and his headache settling down upon him again as he neared the large house with the cupola.
Diantha watched him out of sight, turned and marched up the path to her own door, her lips set tight, her well-shaped head as straightly held as his.

"It's a shame, a cruel, burning shame!" she told herself rebelliously.

"A man of his ability.

Why, he could do anything, in his own work! And he loved it so! "To keep a grocery store!!!!! "And nothing to show for all that splendid effort!" "They don't do a thing?
They just _live_--and 'keep house!' All those women! "Six years?
Likely to be sixty! But I'm not going to wait!".