at first to see the little man settling the double chin into his chest in bis efforts to get at the low d used to with laughter but after a time even this grew monotonous and wearily she begged to leave him nothing seems to yon now he would � ay with a mingled look of affection and regret a shrug of the shoulder she considered a sufficient answer for him and she would sink back as if pursuing to consequences the train of some far ideas and in wonder these men watched the progress of s malady without ever what was really the matter with her she was but not for the house in and the of she had come to look upon and mrs the and as a dream to which she could not return and did not wish to return her was not to go to the point from which she had started but to settle down in a house for a while not for long dick she said a month even a fortnight would make all the difference we spent a fortnight at but we have never stayed a fortnight at the same place since i know what s the matter with you he answered you want a holiday so do i we all want a holiday one of these days we shall get one when the tour comes to an end it did not seem to that the would ever come to an end she would always be going round like a wheel i a s wife dick begged her to have patience and she resolved to have patience but one saturday night in the middle of her packing the vision of the long railway journey that awaited her on the morrow rose up suddenly in her mind and she could not do else than spring to her feet and standing over the half filled trunk she said dick i cannot i cannot don t ask me ask you what he said to go to bath with you to morrow morning she answered you won t come to bath he cried but who will play i will of course i don t understand dick replied i only want one day off why shouldn t i spend the sunday in and go to church i want a little rest i can t help it dick well i never you seem to get more and more capricious every day then you won t let me said with a flush flowing through her olive cheeks won t let you why shouldn t you stay if it pleases you dear is staying too he wants to see an of his who lives in the town dick s unaffected kindness so touched s that the tears up into her eyes and she flung herself into his arms sobbing for the moment she was very happy and looked into the dream of the long day she was going to spend with afraid lest some incident might rob her of her happiness but nothing fell out to blot her hopes everything seemed to be happening just as she had foreseen it and trembling with excitement the twain hurried through the town out the way to the church at last it was a s wife s l found in a distant and ber emotion almost from tbe moment she entered into the peace of the building became so that to hide the tears upon her cheeks she was forced to bury her face in her hands and in the soft of the organ recollections of ber life up but as tbe proceeded ber excitement until at last it subsided into a state of languid ecstasy nor was it till tbe congregation knelt down with one accord for the prayer that she asked pardon for her sins but how could god forgive her ber sins if she in them she asked herself how could she leave dick and to her husband would not receive her her life bad got into a and might never get straight again but all is in the hands of god and thinking of the woman that had been and the woman that was she prayed god to consider god will she said how it all came about i cannot was kneeling in the beside her and he wondered at seeing her so absorbed in prayer he did not know that she was so pious and thought that such piety as hers was not in accord vith the life she had taken up and the company with which they were but perhaps it was a mere passing emotion a sudden of her past life which would fade away and never return again he hoped that this was tbe case for he believed in her talent and that a london success awaited her he kept his eyes averted from knowing that his observation would distress her and after church she said she would like to go for a walk and be suggested the river in the shade of spreading trees they watched the boats passing in tbe of the afternoon they talked of many things and of many people and it pleased and surprised them to find that their ideas and in the pauses of the a s wife conversation they wondered why they had never spoken to each other like this before he was often tempted to hold out prospects of a london success with a view to cheering her but he felt that this was not the moment to do so but she being a little less spoke to him of his music with a view to pleasing him but he could not his thoughts from her and could only tell her that he heard her voice in the music as he composed it the afternoon is passing he said it s time to beg n thinking of tea whereupon they rose to their feet and walked a long 