"Well," she said, suddenly, "you don't tell me what mother had to say.

Of course, as you came home earlier than you expected, you had time to stop THERE--only four doors from this house." "Well, no, Joan," replied Blandford, in awkward discomfiture.

"You see I met Dick first, and then--then I hurried here to you--and--and--I clean forgot it.

I'm very sorry," he added, dejectedly.
"And I more deeply so," she returned, with her previous bloodless moral precision, "for she probably knows by this time, Edward, why you have omitted your usual Sabbath visit, and with WHOM you were." "But I can pull on my boots again and run in there for a moment," he suggested, dubiously, "if you think it necessary.

It won't take me a moment." "No," she said, positively; "it is so late now that your visit would only show it to be a second thought.