You will quarrel with him--and like him!" "One of the 'Socialists' ?" "Ah--you must find out!" He threw her a laughing backward glance as he went off to give directions to some of his other guests.

The room filled up.

Diana was aware of a tall young man, fair-haired, and evidently Scotch, whom she had not seen before, and then of a girl, whose appearance and dress riveted her attention.

She was thin and small--handsome, but for a certain strained emaciated air, a lack of complexion and of bloom.

But her blue eyes, black-lashed and black-browed, were superb; they made indeed the note, the distinction of the whole figure.