There is an air of candor and honesty in the room, united with the luxury and elegance, that greatly pleased Miss Grace Plumer.

The apartment leads naturally up to that handsome, graceful, dark-haired, dark-eyed gentleman whose eye is following hers, while she does not know it; but whose mind has preceded hers in the very journey around the room it has now taken.
Sligo Moultrie sits beyond Miss Plumer, who is at the left of Mr.Newt.
Upon his right sits Mrs.Plumer.The friendly relations of Abel and Sligo have not been disturbed.

They seem, indeed, of late to have become even strengthened.

At least the young men meet oftener; not infrequently in Mrs.Plumer's parlor.

Somehow they are aware of each other's movements; somehow, if one calls upon the Plumers, or drives with them, or walks with them alone, the other knows it.