MRS.

LANCASTER Keith had not yet met Mrs.Lancaster.He meant to call on her before leaving town; for he would show her that he was successful, and also that he had recovered.

Also he wanted to see her, and in his heart was a lurking hope that she might regret having lost him.

A word that Mrs.
Wentworth had let fall the first evening he dined there had kept him from calling before.
A few evenings later Keith was dining with the Norman Wentworths, and after dinner Norman said: "By the way, we are going to a ball to-night.

Won't you come along?
It will really be worth seeing." Keith, having no engagement, was about to accept, but he was aware that Mrs.Wentworth, at her husband's words, had turned and given him a quick look of scrutiny, that swept him from the top of his head to the toe of his boot.
He had had that swift glance of inspection sweep him up and down many times of late, in business offices.