May I ?" "A dozen, if you wish," said Mrs.Gerard, "only, if you don't climb into that vehicle, we'll miss the train." So on the way to Wyossette station Eileen sat very still, gloved hands folded in her lap, composing her telegram to Selwyn.

And, once in the station, having it by heart already, she wrote it rapidly: "Nina and I are on our way to the Berkshires for a week.
House-party at the Craigs'.

We stay overnight in town.

E.E." But the telegram went to his club, and waited for him there; and meanwhile another telegram arrived at his lodgings, signed by a trained nurse; and while Miss Erroll, in the big, dismantled house, lay in a holland-covered armchair, waiting for him, while Nina and Austin, reading their evening papers, exchanged significant glances from time to time, the man she awaited sat in the living-room in a little villa at Edgewater.

And a slim young nurse stood beside him, cool and composed in her immaculate uniform, watching the play of light and shadow on a woman who lay asleep on the couch, fresh, young face flushed and upturned, a child's doll cradled between arm and breast.
* * * * * "How long has she been asleep ?" asked Selwyn under his breath.
"An hour.