Mr.Somerset has been kind enough to give us a chance of enlarging our knowledge of French Early-pointed, and pays half the expenses.' Paula said a few other things to the young man, walked slowly round the triforium as if she had come to examine it, and returned down the staircase.

On getting back to the hotel she told her aunt, who had just been having a nap, that next day they would go to Etretat for a change.
'Why?
There are no old churches at Etretat.' 'No.

But I am sick and tired of holy places, and want to go to some wicked spot or other to find that consolation which holiness cannot give.' 'For shame, Paula! Now I know what it is; you have heard that he's gone there! You needn't try to blind me.' 'I don't care where he's gone!' cried Paula petulantly.

In a moment, however, she smiled at herself, and added, 'You must take that for what it is worth.

I have made up my mind to let him know from my own lips how the misunderstanding arose.