THREE days afterward Ethel called on Dora Stanhope at the Savoy.

She found her alone, and she had evidently been crying.

Indeed, she frankly admitted the fact, declaring that she had been "so bored and so homesick, that she relieved she had cried her beauty away." She glanced at Ethel's radiant face and neat fresh toilet with envy, and added, "I am so glad to see you, Ethel.

But I was sure that you would come as soon as you knew I wanted you." "Oh, indeed, Dora, you must not make yourself too sure of such a thing as that! I really came to London to get some new gowns.

I have been shopping all morning." "I thought you had come in answer to my letter.