MRS.

GREEN As Patty went by so quickly, she saw Stephen without appearing to glance in his direction.

For the last few weeks a flame had run over her whenever she remembered, and there was scarcely a moment when it was out of her mind, that she had shown her heart so openly and that, as she expressed it bitterly, "he had hidden behind his mother." "If he comes back again," she told herself recklessly, and she felt scorched when she thought that he might never come back, "I'll let him see that I can trifle as well as, or better, than he can.

I'll let him see that two can play at that kind of game." A hundred times Corinna's warning returned to her.

The words, which had made so slight an impression when she heard them, were burned now into her memory.