Then he checked his feeling, as he thought how foolish it would be to get angry at a passing tramp, who was probably a little out of his mind.

Yet the man's remark had a strange power over him.

He tried to shake it off as he looked harder at him.

The man looked over at Philip and repeated gravely, shaking his head, "Not sincere." Mrs.Strong came back into the room, and Philip motioned her to sit down near him while he said, "And what makes you think I was not sincere ?" "You said the age in which we lived demanded that people live in a far simpler, less extravagant style." "Yes, that is what I said.

I believe it, too," replied Philip, clasping his hands over his knee and gazing at his singular guest with earnestness.