ldish eagerness.

"Oh, thank you, thank you very much; but if you would give the same sum
to charity--"

"I will," I laughed. She couldn't guess how glad I was to do this
thing. "And I'll spend just as much on your lace and be so happy if
you'll accept it."

I promised Henrietta a box for to-night, Maggie, and one to Mrs.
Kingdon. The Dowager told me she'd love to come, though her husband is
out of town, unfortunately, she said.

"But you'll come with me, won't you, Bishop?" she said, turning to him.
"And you, Mrs. Van?"

The Bishop blushed. Was he thinking of Beryl, I wonder. But I didn't
hear his answer, for it was at that moment that I caught Fred's voice.
He had told me he was going to call for me. I think he fancied that
the old Cruelty would depress me--as dreams of it have, you know; and
he wanted to come and carry me away from it, just as at night, when
I've waked shivering and moaning, I've felt his dear arms lifting me
out of the black night-memory of it.

But it was anything but a doleful Nance he found and hurried down the
snowy steps out to a hansom and off to rehearsal. For the Bishop had
said to me, "God bless you, child," when he shook hands with both of us
at parting, and the very Cruelty seemed to smile a grim benediction, as
we drove off together, on Fred and

NANCY O.

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