"It is your affair, and--where is my cap ?" "I should think it is in your room," Louis answered meekly.

"It was only that I thought it might be Anne.

That there might be----" "Two fools in the house instead of one!" Claude broke in, emerging noisily, and slamming the door of his closet behind him.

"There, come, and we may hope to be back to supper some time to-night! Do you hear ?" And jealously shepherding the other out of the house, he withdrew the key when both had passed the threshold.

Locking the door on the outside, he thrust the key under it.