ow Jack Tosswill hadn't remembered that. Jack hadn't thought of it.
But oh! how absurd he had been when his first rapture was over. Without
even waiting for an answer to his proposal, he had coolly suggested they
should wait till he had made a start at the Bar! At last she had managed
to make him listen to her plea that, till a year had elapsed, she could
not think of re-marriage. And he had believed her!

All at once she told herself, a little ruefully, that she had perhaps
been foolish; that this affair, slight and altogether unimportant as it
was, might become a tiresome complication. Of course she could keep him
in order, but she was well aware that when a man had kissed her once, he
generally wanted to kiss her again, and very soon.

In principle, she had no objection to Jack Tosswill's kisses. There was
something fresh, alluring, wholly delightful, even to so hardened a flirt
as was Enid Crofton, in being the object of a youth's first love. But she
told herself, almost fiercely, that she must make him understand very,
very clearly that, though they might sometimes kiss, they must never be
caught. Fortunately Jack was curiously cautious for so young a man. That
had been one of the reasons why she had been tempted to--well--to make
him lose his head.

And then another figure, one of far greater importance and moment to
herself than poor Jack Tosswill, came and challenged Enid Crofton to
anxious attention. How did she stand with regard to Godfrey Radmore?

She stopped in her pacing, and stared straight before her. For the first
time in her life she was quite at a loss as to what a man, of whom she
was seeing a great deal, really felt about her.

Rosamund Tosswill was very young, and Enid secretly thought her very
stupid, but there could be no doubt as to her essential truthfulness.
Now, a day or two ago, Rosamund had said: "Isn't it funny of Godfrey? He
told Janet when he first came here that he had made up his mind to remain
a bachelor!"

And yet they two, she, Enid, and Godfrey, had had something tantamount to
an emotional little scene the first time he had come to see her at The
Trellis House. True, it had only lasted two or three seconds, but while
it lasted it had been intense. Had Timmy Tosswill not burst into the room
in that stupid, inopportune way, Radmore would have certainly taken her
in his arms. Though Radmore was no innocent, high-principled boy, even
one kiss between them would have altered their