And besides, if I had been inclined to forget, I--did you not give me something by way of a remembrancer ?" "Did I ?" "Think." "It does seem to me that I did; but I have forgotten what it was now." "Never, never call a lady's memory fickle again! Do you recognize this ?" "A little spray of box! I am beaten--I surrender.

But have you kept that all this time ?" Laura's confusion was very, pretty.

She tried to hide it, but the more she tried the more manifest it became and withal the more captivating to look upon.

Presently she threw the spray of box from her with an annoyed air, and said: "I forgot myself.

I have been very foolish.