kept on,--you'd have liked them after a while."

"Perhaps; but some one told me that they would make my fingers yellow."

"Oh, pshaw, not if you hold them the right way."

"The smoke got in my eyes so too; oh, I didn't seem to care anything
about it."

Then they rose and joined the promenaders, who were beginning to grow a
little fewer with the approach of the dinner hour.

"And where have you been all this time?" the man asked.

"In Paris buying clothes, and in Lucerne wearing them."

"You're travelling with friends?"

"Yes, most of the time. They went on to Constance to-day, and I am to
join them there Thursday."

"If you haven't anything else to do to-night, won't you go with me to
the Tonhalle and hear the music? It appears to be quite the thing to
do."

"I think that that would be lovely, and I'd like to very much, only we
must be back at the hotel by ten or half-past, for I am really very
tired."

"That's easily done; you know we can go whenever we want to. What time
shall I call for you?"

"I'll be ready after eight."

"I'll come about quarter past, and we can stroll about first and see
something of the night side of Zurich."

"The night side of everything here is so beautiful," said Rosina; "the
shops that are temptation incarnate by day become after dark nothing but
bottomless pits into which all my money and my good resolutions tumble
together."

By this time they had crossed the bridge and followed the Uto nearly to
the Badeanstalt; it seemed time to turn their faces hotel-ward, and so
they did so, and parted for an hour or two, during which to dine and to
dress were the main objects in life for each.

Then about half-past eight Monsieur l'Americain came for his
country-woman, and both went out into the charm and glow of the
Continental night, with no other thought than that of enjoying a placid
and uninterrupted evening amidst the music and electric lights of the
Tonhalle. That such was not to be the case was one of the secrets of the
immediate future, and the advantage of the future, when it is immediate,
is that it is soon forced to stand and deliver as regards its secrets.
Rosina, totally unconscious of what was impending over her head, entered
fully into the spirit of gayety which prevailed, and absorbed the
pleasure of the scene with open heart and hands. It is good to grow to
womanhood (or manhood) without losing a child's capacity for spontaneous
enjoyment,--to be capable of joy w