For a moment she stopped to talk, then Dr.Price waved a gay good-bye and was off.

All she could catch was a hasty, "No; I don't think I'd better come in to-night," from him.
As Adele entered the Mayfair she glanced about, caught sight of Constance and came and sat down by her.
It would have been impossible for her to enter unobserved, so popular was she.

It was not long before the two girls whom Constance had seen dealing with "Sleighbells" sauntered over.
"Your friend was here to-night," remarked one to Adele.
"Which one ?" laughed Adele.
"The one who admired your dancing the other night and wanted to take lessons." "You mean the young fellow who was selling something ?" asked Constance pointedly.
"Oh, no," returned the girl quite casually.

"That was Sleighbells," and they all laughed.
Constance thought immediately of Drummond.

"The other one, then," she said, "the thick-set man who was all alone!" "Yes; he went away afterward.