have always told them for myself i make no claims where my daughter is concerned it is it was a relief to when at this point mrs le s discharge of her duty was cut short by her daughter s had been unable to � a coward i find a for mr and her mother with beaming suggested that in that case she had better show the garden the house stood but a few yards back from the brick paved street and the garden was a very small place unless measured as mrs cur style probably intended that it should be by the extent i of her daughter s charms these were so considerable that walked back and forward half a dozen times between the porch and the gate before he discovered the of the domain it i not till had accused him of being sarcastic and had confided in him that the girls were furious with her for him talk to her so long at his aunt s garden party that he awoke to the i of his surroundings and then it was with a touch of irritation that he noticed mr s bent above a newspaper in one of the lower windows had an idea that mr while reading the paper had kept count of the i number of times that his daughter had led her com i up and down between the bushes and for some reason he resented mr s observation more his wife s zealous self to a man who is trying to please a pretty girl there are moments when the of an impartial spectator is more than the a coward most obvious and about s expression conveyed his good hu i difference to s processes when the garden gate closed behind he had become aware that his with the had shifted its centre from the daughter to the father but he was accustomed to such surprises and skilled in seizing any they might offer ri the belonged tn the all the year n of paper mills cable cars brick and church while mrs the aunt with whom lived was an ornament of the summer colony whose big country houses dotted the surrounding hills mrs had however no difficulty in the curiosity which mrs s had aroused in the young man mrs s itself mainly on the summer people as they were called she did not propose that any one within ten miles of should keep a carriage without knowing that she was entitled to keep too mrs remarked with a sigh that mrs s annual demand to have her position understood came in us a the taxes and the water a coward my dear it s simply this when c her years ago � heaven knows why he did le fi one of the you know and she � as a daughter of old ash of south � well when he married her he had a tidy little income and i suppose the bride expected to set up an in new york and be hand iu glove with the whole but whether he was i of her from the first or for some other reason he bought a country place and settled down here for hfe for a few years they lived comfortably enough and she had plenty of smart i clothes and drove about in a victoria calling on the � people then when the beautiful was about ten years old mr s only brother died and it turned out that he had made away with a lot of trust property it was a horrid business over three hundred thousand dollars were gone and of course most of it had belonged to and as soon as the facts were made known announced that he would pay back what his brother had stolen he sold his country place and his wife s carriage and they moved to the little house they live now mr s income is probably not as large s his wife would like to have it thought and though m told he puts aside a good part of it every year to pay off his brother s obligations i fancy the debt won t � i be discharged for some time to come to help things along he opened a law office � he had studied law in his youth � but though he is said to be i hear that he has very little to do people are afraid of him he s too dry and quiet nobody in a man who doesn t believe in himself and mr always seems to be at you through a in his professional manner people don t like it � his wife doesn t like it i believe she would have accepted the sacrifice of the country place and the carriage if he had struck an attitude and talked about doing his duty it was his regarding the whole thing as a matter of course that exasperated her what is the use of doing something difficult in a way that makes it look perfectly easy i feel sorry for mrs she a lost her house and her carriage and she has n t allowed to be heroic h had listened attentively miss thinks of it he mused mrs looked at him with a smile i wonder what you think of miss she answer reassured her i think she takes after her mother he said ah cried his aunt cheerfully then i needn t write to your mother and i can have at all my miss was an important in the re s social of a hostess a local beauty is always a useful addition to n monday house party the beautiful was served up as a novelty to the guests of the summer colony as s aunt remarked she was perfect till she became and she never became playful the third day under these conditions it was natural that should see a 