HOW TITA TELLS OF TWO STRANGE DREAMS, AND OF HOW THEY MOVED HER.

AND HOW MAURICE SETS HIS SOUL ON ASKING A GUEST TO OAKDEAN; AND HOW HE GAINS HIS DESIRE.
"Not one, except this," touching her engagement ring.

"That you have given me." "You don't care for them, then ?" "Yes I do.

I love them, but there was nobody to give them to me.
I was very young, you see, when poor daddy died." She stops; her mouth takes a mournful curve; the large gray eyes look with a sort of intensity through the windows to something--_something_ beyond--but something that Rylton cannot see.
After all, _is_ she so trivial?
She cares, at all events, for the memory of that dead father.

Rylton regards her with interest.
_ "He_ would have given me rings," she says.
It is so childish, so absurd, that Rylton wonders why he doesn't want to laugh.