Does he put it all," he smiled, "on me ?" "Did you come out," she asked, "to put it all on HIM ?" But he replied to this no further than, after an instant, by saying: "Oh it's all right.

Chad I mean's all right in having said to you--well anything he may have said.

I'll TAKE it all--what he does put on me.

Only I must see him before I see you again." She hesitated, but she brought it out.

"Is it absolutely necessary you should see me again ?" "Certainly, if I'm to give you any definite word about anything." "Is it your idea then," she returned, "that I shall keep on meeting you only to be exposed to fresh humiliation ?" He fixed her a longer time.