HOW A YOUNG AND LOVELY NATURE TAKES A SHOCK MOST CRUELLY ADMINISTERED.

AND HOW A DOWAGER TAKES A NEW NAME AS A DIRECT INSULT.
AND HOW TITA DECLINES TO PROMISE ANYTHING.
He stands at the open window looking in.

All at once Tita knows and _feels_ that Margaret sent him to rescue her from captivity.
"Lady Rylton," calls he, "won't you come out?
The evening is a perfect dream--a boon and a blessing to men, like those pens, you know." The elder Lady Rylton answers him.

She leans forward, a charming smile on her wonderfully youthful features.
"No.

No, thanks." She shakes her pretty, fair head at Gower in a delightfully coquettish fashion.