, 1898-12-14
AT THE PLAY.

"How funny to be here with you! %
said she.
He started. The phrase Jared him.
It was at once inapplicable and undig-
ni1ed. He turned to her with a panied
expression. Delightful, perfect, +"
''entertaining"-he could have condon-
ed expressions such as these, common
place as they would undoubtedly have
been. A man may be tender toward a
woman's rhapsodies about her lover
"funnyr"
"Oh, oh, ohr' She clutched his arm.
"What funny ~peoplel" The fatal ad.
jeotive again! This time he WINGED,
WINGED twice deliberately, lest she
should mistake the first signal of dis
tress as a mere physical infirmity.
She continued quickly:
"That reminds mel don't know
why it reminds me, but it does; force
of habit perhaps, because he hates bad
ly turned out women so-Don is up in
town tonight. Did you know? wonder
ii we shall come across him?"
1Ou IIltdU u % NOullRtI
SOM"
"You remember Don 2"
Her glance, meeting his full, showed
some surprise at his obvious i'll temper.
She nut her hand out hurriedIy, with a
pretty. unaffected gesture of sympathy.
Dear! You're not ill?"
Nothing irritates a man whose liver
is ont of order 90 much as being re-.
minded Of the fact. The deepeninp
curves Mt Cbinnock's month grew posi-
lively r;oid with irritation.
GOT course not. Is ANYTHING ever the
matter with me? How your Imagination
runs sway with you-dearestr" The
"dearest'' was a dutiful concession To
the situation lint. somebow. she shrank
from II. her ordor chilled. the keeupess
of her eniovment morred already.
1--WE have still ten minutes to wait
before the curtain ~rises." he said. He
regretted his customary after dinner
cofYee. "Wbat IL I took the opportuni-
~ of explaining tn Won the motif of the
nlayp n ia n trife complex."
IL would be kind of you." she said.
with a little smile. but. n~otwitbstaud.
ing. her ewes showed some ~disappoint-
ment as she scanned the house. She
was longing to sneak the sweet banali-
ties 10 which most lovers find IL pleasant
20 listen: to make her bright little
comments and butterfly criticisms: to
ain tn liz fnII the evenjno,s cun Of eva
nesoent endowment: to he. in a word.
herself-the creature of the moment,
and his own
She had looked for To tonight
the f,rst Of her emanoipation-with
r@antnron. excitement. sit will he al.
most as uood as being his wife. she had
oon6ded tn the married sister under
whose chnperonape she was spending
tbe "a bonrs in town. which broke her
ionrpev between her Gloucestershire Wis
T. and her travels farther north. '.To
h.ve him nil To myself for a whole even
inoi To feel that 1 really belonp to him
o.. ha haIonos IN mo, Dan Won ;n,aoine
ANYTHING more nerfect?n
i.adv Gnthrie could. easily. but she
did mt saw 30 She had only met Chin.
mock once. and he impressed her as a
nr;o and q bore. and Mareot's angry
discIaimers conld not alter her SISTERS
d. opinion.
lyon have TO marry him, not IT.
sbe said comfortably. "What does it
matter What 1 think? He's we'll of.
vb;ch Ia somethinp. At least Won can
coporatnJate vourself go far. No one
osn natron;ze Won, four women friends
von't be able 10 mass Won ON their I'M.
hsoominp last wears clothing nor their
hnshands, stale tobacco"
"Yon,re nreiudioed. " Margot replied.
"AlI sisters are" Which In a sense
vas true. for LADY Gutbrie's sympathy
wss openly enlisted on behalf Of the
scaneurace of the Fillmore family, youpg
non Garrick. who had adored MarQot
. .inoa she trespassed b~arefacedly and
h.refoo, in the Kilmore deer forest as a
little child Rnt Maroot having sys-
tarat;cajlv dominated him for 10 wears.
.Irsadv feit the pleasure might pall If
lone continued. ..He has been 40 much
N mo ali NV life. Il would be boring
rest rest . Of lit IT.. .,id know ne s,n n,m 20; 20 w ss- oe1S