"And now about yourself ?" "A little finger of flame burning in an empty place," he sighed.

"That is how life seems to me when I take my hand off the plough." She answered him lightly, but her face softened and her eyes shone with sympathy.
"Aren't you by way of being just a little sentimental ?" "Perhaps," he admitted.

"If I am, let me feel the luxury of it." "One reads different things of you." "For instance ?" "Town Topics says that you have become an interesting figure at many social functions.

You must meet attractive people there." "I only wish that I could find them so," he answered.

"London has been almost feverishly gay lately and every one seems to have discovered a vogue for entertaining politicians.