Just at the moment when he was calculating that she could no longer well avoid looking up, she exclaimed-- "Dear me, how vexatious! there goes another of those buttons.

I shall have to sew it on again before I go," and she looked at him with a charmingly frank air of asking for sympathy, at the same time that it conveyed the obvious idea that she ought to lose no time in making the necessary repairs.
"I will not keep you, then," he said, somewhat sadly, and turned away.
Was the accident intentional?
Did she want to avoid him?
he could not help the thought, and yet what could be more frank and sunshiny than the smile with which she responded to his parting salutation?
The next Sunday Laura and he were at church in the evening.
"I wonder why Madeline was not out.

Do you know ?" he said as they were walking home.
"No." "You're not nearly so friendly with her as you used to be.

What's the matter ?" She did not reply, for just then at a turning of the street, they met the young lady of whom they were speaking.

She looked smiling and happy, and very handsome, with a flush in either cheek, and walking with her was the new drug-clerk.