She hesitated during the long dreadful moment.

How dared Garth behave in that way?
People would think there was something unusual about her gown.

She felt a wild impulse to stoop and look at it herself to see whether his kiss had materialised and was hanging like a star to the silken hem.

Then she forced herself to calmness and answered rather brusquely: "I am not golfing to-morrow; but you could not do better than go to the links.

Good-night, Mrs.
Parker Bangs.