"Oh, do you realize," she said," that we have risen from the dead ?" The Experiment CHAPTER I ON TRIAL "I really don't know why I accepted him.

But somehow it was done before I knew.

He waltzes so divinely that it intoxicates me, and then I naturally cease to be responsible for my actions." Doris Fielding leant back luxuriously, her hands clasped behind her head.
"I can't think what he wants to marry me for," she said reflectively.

"I am quite sure I don't want to marry him." "Then, my dear child, what possessed you to accept him ?" remonstrated her friend, Vera Abingdon, from behind the tea-table.
"That's just what I don't know," said Doris, a little smile twitching the corner of her mouth.

"However, it doesn't signify greatly.