IN KENSINGTON GARDENS If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness.

The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigour and yields to softness.
-- ST.

FRANCIS DE SALES.
Malcolm went up by an early train the next morning.

He had a long day's work before him--a mass of correspondence to sift, several business interviews, and some proofs to revise.

It was later than usual when he went back to Cheyne Walk, but Verity had put aside his dinner for him, and sat beside him while he ate it.