Magnanimity goes with it, does it not, and generosity, courtesy, care for the thing which is, and not for that which seems?
Why, then, with these and other qualities I strive to endow the character." He closed the fan, and, leaning back in his chair, shaded his eyes with his hand.

"When the lights are out," he said; "when forever and a night the actor bids the stage farewell; when, stripped of mask and tinsel, he goes home to that Auditor who set him his part, then perhaps he will be told what manner of man he is.

The glass that now he dresses before tells him not; but he thinks a truer glass would show a shrunken figure." He sat in silence for a moment; then laughed, and gave her back her fan.
"Am I to come to Westover, Evelyn ?" he asked.

"Your father presses, and I have not known what answer to make him." "You will give us pleasure by your coming," she said gently and at once.
"My father wishes your advice as to the ordering of his library; and you know that my pretty stepmother likes you well." "Will it please you to have me come ?" he asked, with his eyes upon her face.
She met his gaze very quietly.

"Why not ?" she answered simply.