"I rather expected to win, too." "You must be very disappointed, I am afraid." "I have lost," he said thoughtfully, "a gold cup.

I have gained--" She half rose and shook out her skirts as though about to leave him.

He stopped short and found another conclusion to his sentence.
"Experience!" A faint smile parted her lips.

She resumed her seat.
"I am glad to find you," she said, "so much of a philosopher.

Now talk to me for a few minutes about what you have been doing in Africa." He obeyed her, and very soon she forgot the well dressed crowd of men and women by whom they were surrounded, the light hum of gay conversation, the band which was playing the fashionable air of the moment.