Are you living alone--or are you with friends ?" "Oh, I'm in a boarding-house," said Miss Wigram, hastily.

Then as though she recognised the new softness in Doris's look, she added, "I'm quite comfortable there--and I've a great deal of work.

Good night." * * * * * "All alone!--with that gentle face--and that terrible amount of conscience--hard lines!" thought Doris, as she reflected on her visitor.
"I felt a black imp beside her!" All the same, the letter which Mrs.Meadows received by the following morning's post was not at all calculated to melt the "black imp" further.

Arthur wrote in a great hurry to beg that she would not go on with their Welsh plans--for the moment.
Lady D---- has insisted on my going on a short yachting cruise with her and Miss Field, the week after next.

She wants to show me the West Coast, and they have a small cottage in the Shetlands where we should stay a night or two and watch the sea-birds.