They were invited to Miriam's to-night.

We'll stand here until they pass." The two young people stood in the shadow quietly waiting, unseen by the approaching couple, who were completely absorbed in conversation.
"I tell you I can't do it," Grace heard Marian say impatiently.

"It doesn't belong to me, and I have no right to touch it." Hammond's reply was inaudible, but it was evident that Marian's remark had angered him, for he grasped her by the arm so savagely that she cried out: "Don't hold my arm so tightly, Henry, you are hurting me.

I am not foolish to refuse to give it to you.

Suppose you should lose it all--" They had passed the statue by this time, and Grace and Tom heard no more of their conversation.