han are a
man's. Certainly it has been often observed that she will recognize
evidences of love, which man passes by unnoted and unheeded. If a girl
is quicker to discover that she is loved, she also admits sooner that
she is in love, though the admission be made only to herself. Thus, as
we have seen, the Doctor's charm operated upon Agnes.

When Leon awoke that same morning, it was a sudden awakening from
dreamless sleep. He recalled nothing of what had occurred during the
previous night, nor had he even a suspicion that Agnes had been in his
thoughts at all. Nevertheless he dressed himself with feverish haste,
and, contrary to his usual custom, he left the house and went "for a
walk," or so he explained his action to himself. Yet very soon he had
reached the nearest station of the Suburban Elevated railroad, and was
rapidly borne towards the city. During this trip he thought that he
was going to town to obtain some chemicals which he needed in the
laboratory, but, as there was no immediate necessity for them, he
might have delayed their purchase for several days. The truth was he
was answering a scarcely recognized inward restlessness, which
demanded action of some sort. The cause of this change from his normal
habit was that "something was the matter" with him, as he afterwards
expressed it. But at the time he did not seek an explanation of his
mood. He did procure the chemicals, but having done so, instead of
returning home, he walked aimlessly for several blocks, until he
stopped, seemingly without purpose, before a florist's shop. In an
instant he had formulated a design, "on the spur of the moment" he
told himself, though it was but the outcome of the secret agency which
controlled his whole conduct that day. He went in and purchased some
rose-buds, selecting red ones, and he wrote the card which Agnes found
upon them. When he reached the signature he quickly scribbled "Leon,"
and then he paused. The thought within his mind was, "I have no other
name." Therefore he did not continue. Thus it is evident that the
single signature was not a familiarity, either intended or implied,
but a response to that feeling, ever within his consciousness, that he
had no right to call himself "Grath"! Upon this point he was ever
sensitive. He hastened to the Judge's house and left the bouquet at
the door. Then he returned to Villa Medjora with a lighter heart, and,
man-like, he wrongly attributed this to the ozone with which the