Where did you suppose it was to be published ?" "Why, in Boston, of course.

Where else should it be published ?" She looked at him for the intention of his question so searchingly that he quite gave up the attempt to be gay about it.

"No," he said, gravely, "it's to be published in New York." She fell back in her chair.

"In New York ?" She leaned forward over the table toward him, as if to make sure that she heard aright, and said, with all the keen reproach that he could have expected: "In New York, Basil! Oh, how could you have let me go on ?" He had a sufficiently rueful face in owning: "I oughtn't to have done it, but I got started wrong.

I couldn't help putting the best foot, forward at first--or as long as the whole thing was in the air.