Looking up at him with a sly expression of incredulity, she signed these words in reply:--"I am afraid it ought to be a much better drawing than it is.

Do you really like it ?" Zack rejoined impetuously by a fresh torrent of superlatives.

She watched his face, for a moment, rather anxiously and inquiringly, then bent down quickly over her drawing.

He walked back to Valentine.

Her eyes followed him--then returned once more to the paper before her.