You've hardly spoken of it since I got back." "There's been so little time--" "You mean," she interrupted, "I've been so busy unpacking my silly dresses and hats and making and receiving silly calls." "Now you're in one of your penitential moods," laughed Dory.

"And to-morrow you'll wish you hadn't changed about the house.

No--that's settled.

We'll take it, and see what the consequences are." Adelaide brightened.

His tone was his old self, and she did want that house so intensely! "I can be useful to Dory there; I can do so much on the social side of the university life.