Miss Dryfoos might be ever so much finer and better than we would find out in the society way that seems the only way." "Perhaps," said Beaton, gloomily; and he went away profoundly discouraged by this last analysis of Christine's character.

The angelic imperviousness of Miss Vance to properties of which his own wickedness was so keenly aware in Christine might have made him laugh, if it had not been such a serious affair with him.

As it was, he smiled to think how very differently Alma Leighton would have judged her from Miss Vance's premises.

He liked that clear vision of Alma's even when it pierced his own disguises.

Yes, that was the light he had let die out, and it might have shone upon his path through life.