The Second Honeymoon

when Jimmy Challoner entered it. She saw him at on

was just wondering if you would come and see

sed to see him, and saw no reason for hiding it. "Have you had

tched. The kindness of Christine's eyes brought a lump to his throat. He did not want her to be kind to him. She wa

istine across the hall to the dining-room; had she really meant him to accept tha

er, to let her see that he would not wear the willow for her; and yet-oh, they were all

haking hands with

Christine was saying. "So I as

y; the little flush had n

ristine's mother. She shook hands with Jim

o kind to him. It made him feel

erably; he began to talk and make himself agreeable. As a matter of course, they talked about the old days

ladder?" Christine asked him laughingl

ou cried," Jim

she, Mrs

yatt l

"I am beginning to think that I never k

looked at

ly days," she s

t had passed since he first got engaged to her; that was life if you pleased, with a capital letter. It seemed incredible that it was all ended and done with; that Cynthia wanted him no longer; that his place in her life was filled by another man; that h

this afternoon?" Mrs. Wyatt

aid Jimmy. "I am entir

ch," said Christine laughing. "She n

gether," said Jimmy promptly. "At least"-he looked

ou with Christine," sa

'll be i

ally want to do anything. He talked to Mrs. Wyatt while Christine put on he

ine la

not. I lo

ynthia would never walk a step if she could help

It was a fine, sunny af

eyes would be very beautiful to a man who liked dark eyes in preference to blue, but-thoughts of Cynthia c

Isn't that-isn't

rly across the grass to where a woman and a

is throat; for a moment

the headache with which she had excused herself to him on

oke again, b

is it Miss F

id Jimmy

the man at her side were walking

im figure of the girl at Jimmy's side. There was the barest fl

was very pale; his mouth

n prettier off the stage than she is on, don't you? Actresses so

othing out but that monosyllable; hated himself because of the

ever thought of the hours they had spent together, the times he h

ill lived was no barrier to her walking wit

"I didn't like the look of him very much

" said Jimmy. He felt a

-so childish, so-so i

" she asked. She turned her b

uld think he's a brute from what I've heard a

after Cynthia Farrow's retreating figure. "Jimmy,

, rather a mi

ery. "They want men with pots and pots of money, who can buy them motor-cars and diamonds, and all the rest

poor a man was if I

wn fur she wore, but he could just get a glimpse of dark lashes ag

day, when you're older and wiser than you are now, you'll fi

ried out indignantly.

halloner di

the same," he t

ery young indeed,