Evening star., 1915-01-31

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he reminded her. "We are doing an easy
thirty"
"Then please don't do any more, she
begged.
where the gorse bushes were breaking into
yellow blossom and the young bracken was
shooting up, new and wonderful green.
In the distance a lake shone like mirror: in
the background the woods rolled away to
the horizon. SYPHILIS enjoyment was COM
plete. Her companion obeyed her bidding
literally He devoted his whole attention
to the car, and the few remarks he made were
entirely concerned with their progress.
When at last they found themselves once
more in the streets of London, Svbil sat up
with little sigh of regret.
WHERE shall l put you DOWN. he
w asked Where do you live? I'll take
you all the wav-Id like to-"
"Burlev Court she told him. 1--WE are
going into London that side, aren't we?"
He assented. He was suddenly little
shy again. Il wonder he began, after
few moments hesitation, wouldn't you
come and have lunch with me somewhere
She shook her head. do you know,
hate restaurants, she remarked simply. Il
never go out at all. l am afraid you will
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to have just outlet and one glass of claret
in my sitting room, with the paper propped
up in front OF me, and then lie on the couch
for siesta afterward.7
He was obviously disappointed. 4I know
you don often go anywhere, he said. "Ive
never seen YOU in restaurant in my life eX-
cept with old Jerrnyn. thought this morn
ing, though, he went on, that the air and
all that might have given you little better
appetite and you might have felt like
change You don't think it's cheek, my
asking, do you"
She looked at him for moment and hesi-
tated. After all, she knew without any con-
ceit that her coming would give him pleas
ure, and her morning had certainly been de-
lightful well, l will change my mind just
this once, if may she declared, smiling.
II will come and lunch with you, if you like;
only you must take me home almost directly
afterward. have a new understudy, and she
is coming to talk with me this afternoon.
"Hooray!" Gerald exclaimed. @That's
finel Now l wonder where you'd like to go,
whether you'd prefer grillroom, mean,
or swagger restaurant
"Grillroom, by all means,7 she begged.
Il am not in the least prepared for any
where smart
We'll go to the Carlton grillroom," he
declared. Il can always get table there,
and the foods topping
The traffic became thicker, and there was
very little more opportunity for converse
ton before they descended in Pail Mall.
Freed from the responsibility of his car, her
companion became pleasantly loquacious.
He secured his table from the chief mafye
d'h6tel, and with an air OF conscious pride
followed Sybil through the room. During
their meal he talked pleasantly of himself
and his doings. Sybil was a good listener,
and she was always amused. After all, he
was rather an interesting study,-a young
man barely twenty-four, just come into his
title, with enormous wealth and everything
in life before him. One could scarcely fail
to be interested at the way his ideas shaped
themselves, and there was certain fascina-
ton in the perfectly natural manner in
which he chartered of his responsibilities,
his pleasures, and his hopes.
When he left her, shortly before three
o'clock, at the door of the building in which
her fiat was situated Sybil felt really CRATE
full to him. Somehow or other he seemed to
have brought her for little time more in
touch with the world in which it seemed
her natural heritage to belong, the world
that was at once so joyful and almost OBJ
trusively gay, and from which she had some
times in her moments of depression fancied
herself banished forever.
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