"But I don't leave him for long." Her hansom had waited.

"She'll come." Lady Wantridge did come.

She met in South Audley Street, on the fourteenth, at tea, the ladies whom Mamie had named to her, together with three or four others, and it was rather a master-stroke for Miss Cutter that if Mrs.Medwin was modestly present Scott Homer was as markedly not.

This occasion, however, is a medal that would take rare casting, as would also, for that matter, even the minor light and shade, the lower relief, of the pecuniary transaction that Mrs.Medwin's flushed gratitude scarce awaited the dispersal of the company munificently to complete.

A new understanding indeed on the spot rebounded from it, the conception of which, in Mamie's mind, had promptly bloomed.