"I wonder what the deuce Gershom has got up his sleeve ?" By the time he reached his office the wonder had vanished; but it returned to him on his way home that afternoon when he dropped into the old print shop for a word with Corinna.
"I passed that fellow Gershom in the Square to-day," he said.

"Do you know him by sight ?" She shook her head.

"What is he like?
Patty tells me that he has become a nuisance." "Ah, then you have seen Patty ?" A smile turned her eyes to the colour of November leaves.

"She was here for an hour this morning.

I have great hopes of her.