he made mr returned miss coldly the count feeling as i do that count is merely a count with instincts brought here like myself for literary purposes of which i cannot approve i a rebellious heroine must reply to your question that you may not have that pleasure with which remark miss swept proudly from the room ordered her carriage and went home thereby utterly the second story of her life that i had undertaken to write but i shall make one more effort an experiment and thus fu her mad and humor he that knows better to tame a now let him speak tis charity to show � of the what would have happened if she had behaved i asked after i had read the pages he had so kindly placed at my disposal oh nothing in particular to which she could reasonably object returned the incidents of a truly novel are rarely objectionable except to people of a nature i a rebellious heroine intended to have dance attendance upon miss for the balance of the season that s all hoping thereby to present a good picture of life at in july and part of august about the middle of august i was going to transport the whole cast to bar harbor for variety s sake that would have been another opportunity to get a good deal of the american summer atmosphere into the book i wish i could afford the kind of summer i contemplated giving her you didn t intend that she should fall in love with i asked not to any serious extent said even if she had a little she d have come out of it all right as soon as the hero turned up and she had a chance to see the difference an experiment between a manly man of her own country and a little fortune hunter from the land of wasn t to be a bad fellow at all he was merely an italian which he couldn t help being bom so and therefore as she said of an nature there is no in that however � that is no he was after a rich marriage because he was fond of a life of ease she d have found him amusing at any rate but he was i suggested not at all said impatiently that s what me more than anything else she made a very bad mistake there as a count was quite as real as his financial necessities it was a awkward situation a rebellious heroine that scene said l especially for the count might have him what became of the count when it was over i don t know said i left him to get out of his as best he could possibly he did challenge i haven t taken the trouble to find out if as i think how ever he s a living person he ll himself from his difficulty all right if he s not and i have allowed myself to him up in my fancy there s no great harm done if he s nothing more than a let him fall on the floor and stay there until i find some imaginative writer who will take him off my hands � you for instance you can have for a christmas present with my an experiment ments vm through with him but as for miss she has been so that she has aroused my deepest interest and i couldn t give her up if i wanted to i never encountered a heroine like her in all my life before and the one object of my future career will be to catch her finally in the of a romance romance will come into her life some time she is not at all of an nature � only � new perhaps but none the less and will have a shot at her when she least expects it and when it does come i ll be on hand to report the attempted for the of the public i should think you would try a little persuasion just for i suggested a rebellious heroine you forget i am a he replied as he went out now i sincerely admired and i wished to the bottom of my heart to help him if i could it seemed to me that however admirable miss had shown herself to be generally as a woman she had been an altogether unsatisfactory person in the r e of a heroine i respected her scruples about marrying men she did not care for and as i have already said no one could deny her the right to her own convictions but it seemed to me that in the incident she might and truly ought to have acted differently when the time came for the there is no doubt in my mind that her little speech to in which she stated that the count was a an experiment loi fraud and might t be presented was a deliberately therefore not in st b could have avoided it by telling before leaving home that she did not care to meet the count to make a scene at mrs s was not a thing which a sober minded self contained woman would have done it was bad form to behave so rudely to one of mrs s and was so in considerate of and unreasonable in other ways that i blamed her she deserves to be punished i thought to myself as went out of the room and there is no kind of punishment for a woman like that so to her soul as to find herself in the hands of a des iq a rebellious heroine pot w p forces way and that to his i d like to play i for five minutes she d soon find out that i m not a bound by a creed to which i must whatever i choose to do i 