And Mamie will never be able to do without me.

The children will be ill----" He left her in tears.

As he re-entered the house by its iron steps up to a glass door Lady Anne came out from her morning-room and called him within.

He looked about him at the room, walled in with books, with yellowed marble busts of great men on top of the book-cases.

His feet sank in soft carpets.