It is the just reward for making those around you happy." "Patty," said Warrington, "would you like the Angora ?" "I should love it dearly." "Then I'll send it over to you in the morning." And that was as near as they approached the subject they were tacitly avoiding.
At a quarter of nine, to the consternation of every one, Mrs.
Franklyn-Haldene was announced.
"Take me up stairs to the billiard-room," said Warrington; "I am not in the mood to meet that woman to-night." "Come on, then," cried John, willing enough.

"There's the servants' stairs.

I'll give you a handicap of twenty in a hundred points." "I'll beat you at those odds." "That remains to be seen." And the two hurried up the stairs just as the hall-door closed.

The billiard-room was situated at the head of the front stairs.

Warrington won the bank, and he ran a score of ten.