A whirl of arguments and projects were in her mind.

But she kept her own counsel about them.

As to the possibility of inducing the man to break it off, she repeated the only condition on which it could be done; at which Uncle Charles laughed, and Alice Wigram fell into a long and thoughtful silence.
* * * * * Doris arrived at home rather early.

What with the emotions of the day, the heat, and her work, she was strangely tired and over-done.

After tea she strolled out into Kensington Gardens, and sat under the shade of trees already autumnal, watching the multitude of children--children of the people--enjoying the nation's park all to themselves, in the complete absence of their social betters.