While the widow played, the lovers hoped to make love undisturbed, and looked forward to a happy evening.

But there was one drawback, for although the dinner hour was supposed to be eight o'clock, and it was now thirty minutes past, Mrs.Jasher had not arrived.

Lucy was dismayed.
"What can be keeping her ?" she asked Archie, to which that young gentleman replied that he did not know, and, what was more, he did not care.

Miss Kendal very properly rebuked this sentiment.

"You ought to care, Archie, for you know that if Mrs.Jasher does not come to dinner, you will have to go away." "Why should I ?" he inquired sulkily.
"People will talk." "Let them.