stand there in that recess and she would deck it with all the old china she could get together of course she had not nearly enough but still there was already enough to make a fair show and she would pick it up bit by bit and why what was the meaning of this in her day dreams about the old oak w c the money sense she had unfolded the sheet of paper which had left by mistake upon the floor it was a sheet of her own with her in one corner and the address of the house neatly printed in red in the one opposite and written on it in s handwriting was this order � to messrs street be good enough to supply miss page with any goods she may select to the value of stared at the letter as if she could not believe what she saw written there supply miss page � to the value of and who in the world was miss page and how came to be supplying miss page or miss anybody else with goods to the value of anything then it flashed across her mind that s name was page of course she had meant to call her page but had preferred to use her christian name lest people should think she had started a page boy a buttons so that was the little game was it that was why her spending a few paltry shillings on a like old china when her only desire for it was to make his house look more i well two could play at such a game oh yes was fond of saying the money sense that no one could get over that he was a jew � but ran s angry thoughts am something more difficult to tackle than a jew shall find out what it is to pit himself against an outraged woman yet in spite of her anger her fury she hid the paper away in her desk and locked it securely and presently when came in to fetch something from the she found her mistress still occupied with the morning post she watched the girl closely all the same and saw that she cast an anxious glance about the room and mrs gave a bitter smothered laugh as went out in unmistakable disappointment the young lady is uneasy she said to herself she cannot think what she has done with the precious order no ordinary words will describe the tumult of feelings which passed through s mind that never to be forgotten morning she felt baffled enraged upset hurt and surprised all by turns she remembered what mrs the departed cook had said � i only you may never find out she felt outraged that she a christian woman of good had given herself body and soul � yes body and soul that was the worst of it � to the money sense this jew who had scorned her so much valued her so little that he had deliberately arranged an affair with her servant her serving maid a great scorn filled her whole soul and the first bitter heart pang which she had felt since her marriage came to add to her suffering then for the first time she thought of her old love for the first time since she had borne her new name she recalled him with a mighty regret if only had been true if only he had been brave brave enough to risk poverty for her sake all this could never have happened she would never have known the fever and fret of a london life of a london failure of a marriage of ways and means and then just as she was on the point of melting into a flood of blessed tears which would have brought her relief which would have washed the greater part of her away a of what was suddenly came to her a remembrance that she was wife the mother of his child in a moment her tears were dried at the her eyes blazed and burned like fires of living coal her whole soul rose up and herself and him and the little life bound up with her own most intensely of all she got up and paced about the handsome room up and the money sense to and fro as if she were trying to beat her fury into the carpet which covered the floor oh she was so angry so hurt it would have been bad at any time even if she had been given to quarrelling with if she had been bad and disagreeable to him but when she could only look back and recall how over and over again she had sacrificed her own inclinations to his how she had suffered from the pains and of continuing the race his race how she had identified herself with his people his set had visited almost exclusively among jews and they not of the best how she had practically given up her own friends and to a certain extent turned her back upon her own people and for such an end as this � well could have thrown herself down upon the floor and aloud in her grief and her despair but even in the face of a shock and dire grief a morning cannot last for ever in time came to lay the table for lunch and her mistress went upstairs and mechanically made her toilet for the afternoon as was her custom open a small bottle of champagne she said when she was seated at table i don t feel very well opened the champagne as she was the money sense and asked in rather a tremulous voice if there was anything else that she could get replied in the negative and then looking keenly at remarked that she was looking very ill what is the matter she asked her self possession was really 