Ah," she laughed, "I mean to keep up the acquaintance!" "Do--do," he murmured mechanically and absently, continuing to look at us.

Then he broke out: "He's going to marry her." I was surprised.

"You already know ?" He produced an evening paper, which he tossed down on the table.

"It's in that." "Published--already ?" I was still more surprised.
"Oh Flora can't keep a secret!"-- Mrs.Meldrum made it light.

She went up to poor Dawling and laid a motherly hand upon him.
"It's all right--it's just as it ought to be: don't think about her ever any more." Then as he met this adjuration with a stare from which thought, and of the most defiant and dismal, fairly protruded, the excellent woman put up her funny face and tenderly kissed him on the cheek..