'How long shall you be away, Norman ?' asked him.

'Not more than two years,' he replied.

'You will be quite a brilliant lady of fashion when I return, Philippa; you will have made conquests innumerable.' 'I shall always be the same to you,' I replied; but he made no answer.

He took the spray of lilac from my hands.

'My ideas of you will always be associated with lilacs,' he said; and that is why, Lady Peters, I ordered the vases to be filled with lilacs to-day.