ved my life!" said Keith to him, gra

fashion, speaking with a slight, well-bred drawl, given to looking rather superciliously from beneath his fine eyelashes, almost too good looking. He liked, or pretended he liked, to view life from the discriminating spectator's standpoint; and remai

pen air, began to fe

bout ten seconds," he told Sansome frankly

some said good-bye, but K

, now you've come so far! I want you

have been a little difficult for him to have got away. Poising his light stick and gloves in his left hand, giving his drooping mo

d to enter. The men threw open the do

e garment with, a wide sash, borrowed from Mrs. Sherwood; and at the moment was seated in an enveloping armchair beneath a wide-shaded lamp. The firm, soft lines of her figure, uncorseted in this negligee, were suggested beneath the silk. Sansome stopped short, s

tively creamy!" he

irectly to her, full of a sudde

honey?" he inquired. "Quit

e was blooming, positively blooming--as fresh as a rose leaf--of course it was rather an imposition on the Sherwoods, but the baggage hadn't come up yet, and they were kind people, our sort, the sort for whom the word obligation did not exist--he, personally, had not intended be

vital, enthusiastic force. In spite of herself,

ocial tact at all. This was mainly--though he did not analyze it--because she was quite apt to speak the direct and literal truth to him; because she had a disquiet

Ben?" she asked in her cool, mocking voic

d a trifle stiffly. The thought that he was suspected of a blunder in soc

ced keenly toward Keit

" she c

the least opposition Keith was in just the condition to reveal himself, perhaps, to break over the frail barrier that separates exhilaration from loss of self-control. They saw also that Nan had no suspicion of the state of affairs. Indeed, following the reaction from her long voyage and her illness, she

ve pulled up all our roots, haven't we, Nan? and come thousands of miles to a new country, a wonderf

s assent to his impl

going to dine with us. No, I insist! You're the only friends we have out

" cried Nan, sitti

eemed easier to promise. Keith rushed out to look for his baggage, t