y contrast with Miss Warren's so slim
foot-covering they looked really dreadful.

Arethusa found it quite impossible to admire Miss Warren's hat,
although liking everything else she wore so much. It was much too small
to conform to Arethusa's ideas of beauty in a hat, and it came so close
down over the visitor's delicate eyebrows, that it seemed impossible
that she could have much of that black hair tucked underneath it.
Arethusa began to feel a trifle better, minding the difference in feet
and the house-slippers a little less, as she remembered her own
glorious mop of redness; which, although so undesirable in color, could
never have been squeezed into so small a space as that hat represented.

"I think it was perfectly dear of you to come to see me," said Arethusa
for the second time.

But the words elicited very little more response than they had when
first spoken.

Miss Warren seemed to be glad that Arethusa should feel as she did
about her coming to call, but there was no real animation in her
gladness.

The hostess cast around for sentiments, which if uttered, might loosen
her visitor's tongue, but the visitor fortunately loosened it of her
own accord.

"Do you like Lewisburg, Miss Worthington? Is this your first visit
here?"

"Yes, and I just love it!" declared Arethusa, "Everybody is perfectly
darling to me! I went to a dinner-dance the other night and had the
Most Heavenly Time! Mrs. Chestnut's it was, at the Hotel. Were you
there?"

Miss Warren had not been invited, she was sorry to say. She volunteered
the information that she was a second-year girl, and that she believed
that very few of them had been asked.

While her information as to the cause of it shed very little light,
Arethusa was exceedingly regretful that her visitor had missed such a
Wonderful Party. She described it in detail for the one so
unfortunately deprived of first-hand enjoyment of the Heavenly Affair,
bringing Mr. Bennet into the narrative.

Did Miss Warren, by any chance, know Mr. Bennet?

Miss Warren did.

Arethusa waxed more eloquent upon so moving a theme.

But Miss Warren had not added that Mr. Bennet had recently been
devoting quite a little of his valuable time and attention to herself,
and that there was very little of Mr. Bennet's charm that Arethusa
could mention which she did not already know. One of the reasons she
had called so promptly when her mother suggested a visit to Mr.
Worthington's daughter was be