Enter Bridget

as determined not to go near Golfney Place the following day. Seeing her amongst the children no one would have imagined that she had a sorrow in the w

o'clock, wearing a flower in his buttonhole. Carrissima accompany

asked, turning to face her. "

rifle small,"

doesn't want a hat to c

fogy yet

claimed. "Still, you will ha

nger to the community," said Colonel Faversham. "I'll tell yo

was shamefully cunning. But she could not help suspecting that he was off

take too much for granted. I may get a snack

lonel Faversham was reckoning without his guest. Miss Rosser might refuse to accept his present, whatever it might be-Carrissima felt very curious to know! She might decline to go out with him, and then her birthday would be spent in utter loneliness. Carrissima pictured her with melancholy reminiscences of her father and mother. Because whatever the girl's faults migh

f course she ought not to have encouraged Mark's visits night after night, as doubtless she had done; but, then, sh

k that afternoon, and having rung the bell at Number 5, Golfney Place, she was

f her own artfulness, "I suppose

returne

e they have gone?

old the chauffeur to

wished she had never gone to Crowborough that summer five years ago! Very devoutly she wished that Mark Driver had not visited the Old Masters' Exhibition. She had

allow any one he knew to pass by, although for once in a

from Sybil lat

ay be certain Sybil's having a rattling good time! She always revels in illness. Goodness knows when I

nd tea," wa

me," he urged, walk

ank you

a glance at her profile, "wh

thing, o

elf I'm good at reading faces, you know, and yours is al

ar my heart on my sl

ou're inscrutable," sa

ow, suppose you te

the use-if ther

I could possibly make you forget it. Besides, people do tell me things.

hetic, or simply because you'r

e carrying?" he as

ase," she

ry hesitation she let him take it, whereupon he had no scrup

you know

"You see what a memory I have.

day," said

old i

ty-th

! The same as your own

he added, "how is it y

aid Carrissima. "I wish you w

f mind, you know. I haven't forgotten that Sybil is

the slightest necess

ou've change

that is a

he live?" Jim

me!" cried Carrissima, laughing quite cheerf

to Colonel Faversham's house

said. "That's all

asked Ca

you lau

der whether your inveterate cheerfu

few useful things I can do," he a

s safe to go full spee

e brakes hard on now and then; but the fact remai

alked away, and going to the drawing-room sat do

idget ruled the roast! Looking at her watch, presently, Carrissima saw that it was about the time when Lawrence could usually be found in the bosom of his family, and going do

and when his nurse had carried him out of the room to an accompa

adful state of mind. I am beginning to wonder whet

stiffly. "But, of course, a p

ssima interrupted. "

been doing?"

ld us that to-day wo

int I ever heard in m

I would take her

yourself in a little

must

"I went to Donaldson's-Phoebe, I saw the duck

along with the story!" c

d-case-silver,"

e done just as well,

it," said Carrissima, "he knew what they were without

been there before you

ma, "and he has taken he

tell you?" s

e again," entreated Carr

e persisted, "before you took the woman

eing could have imagined she would dream of marrying

once since he went away-his only sister! Mark may upset the apple cart yet. It's certain he was pretty far gone, and I don't suppose she ca

"How can you talk like that. He doe

answered. "I am a

"you needn't be a man of

e, "we shall see what happ

"nothing on earth would induce me to live

ve anywhere else. W

tay there!" sa

ridiculous," was the reply. "As bad as the other woman!

issima, "it won't be

ua