TINKER TAKES SEPTIMUS RAINER IN HAND On awaking next morning Dorothy's first thought was how would her father's coming affect her relations with Sir Tancred; and she at once changed it to how would it affect her relations with the whole of the little circle into which a fortunate whim had led her.

She was an honest soul, and now she tried to be as honest with herself as a woman can bring herself to be.

She did not hide from herself that of late she and Sir Tancred had been more and more drawn together; she even went to the length of admitting that her feeling for him was something stronger than friendship.

Indeed, she was full of pity for him.

She had learned from Tinker something of the story of his earlier life, and like a good woman she wished she might give him the happiness he had missed.