Did you think that I was an amateur ?" "I didn't know," he answered slowly.

"Thank you.

You will come to-morrow ?" "Of course! Good evening." "Good evening." Trent lifted his hat, and turned away unwillingly towards the house, full of a sense that something wonderful had happened to him.

He was absent-minded, but he stopped to pat a little dog whose attentions he usually ignored, and he picked a creamy-white rose as he crossed the lawn and wondered why it should remind him of her..