"May I see those photographs ?" "If you like," she answered, "only you mustn't be too critical, for I'm only a beginner, you know.

Here's a bookful of them you can look through, while I go and start the next set." She placed a volume in his hand and swung out of the room, tall, fresh, and graceful.

Wrayson watched her admiringly.

In her perfect naturalness and unaffected good-humour, she reminded him a good deal of her father, but curiously enough there was some other likeness which appealed to him even more powerfully, and yet which he was unable to identify.

It puzzled him so that for a moment or two after her departure he sat watching the door through which she had disappeared, with a slight frown upon his forehead.