sipated hour of half past nine. As they entered their suite the bride took he

cried. "You were prou

although I talked nea

ever mentio

s about his neck. "Say you were p

t and the most animated woman in San Francisco, and that's sa

longest compliment you

ession on some one

wistful. "Now sit down and talk to me.

enough of me in the next thirty or forty years. Run to bed a

ht and the night before and the night be

is what you want after such an exciting day. Remember, I doctor the nerves of all the women in

ed life in Boston. In Washington she had met only the staid old families, and senators of a benignant formality. In Europe she had run across no one she knew who might have introduced her to interesting foreigners, and Mrs. Chilton would as willingly have caressed a tiger as spoken to a stranger no matter how prepossessing. Howard Talbot, whom she had met at the house of a common friend, had taken her by storm. Her family had di

ge she had seen little of him save at the table or when he came to their stateroom late at night. For her mind he appeared to have a good-n

. That was one compensation. And a wise married friend had told her that the only way to manage a husband was to g