nd how lazy I was. I'm much more energetic now;
I've got to the Purgatory, with the dictionary. Am I to have a fresh pot
of tea to myself, kind Aunt Grizel? You see how I am spoiled, Mr. Kane.'

She had drawn off her gloves and tossed aside her long, soft coat--that
looked like nobody else's coat--and, thin and black and idle, she sat in
a low chair by the fire, and put out her hand for her cup. 'I've been to
a musical,' she said. And she told them how she had been wedged into a
corner for an interminable sonata and hadn't been able to get away. 'I
tried to, once, but my hostess saw me and made a most ominous hiss at
me; every one's eye was turned on me, and I sank back again, covered
with shame and confusion.'

Then she questioned him, and Franklin told her about his interesting
little tour, and the men he had met and the work they were doing.
'Splendid work, I can tell you,' said Franklin, 'and you have splendid
men. It's been a great time for me; it's done me a lot of good. I feel
as if I'd got hold of England; it's almost like being at home when you
find so many splendid people interested in the things that interest
you.'

And presently, after a little pause, in which he contemplated the fire,
he added, lifting his eyes to Helen and smiling over the further idea:
'And see here, I'm forgetting another thing that's happened to me since
I saw you.'

'Something nice, I hope.'

'Well, that depends on how one looks at it,' said Franklin, considering.
'I can't say that it pleases me; it rather oppresses me, in fact. But
I'm going to get even with it, though that will take thought--thought
and training.'

'It sounds as though you were going to be a jockey.'

'No, I'm not going to be a jockey,' said Franklin. 'It's more solemn
than you think. What do you say to this? I'm a millionaire; I'm a
multi-millionaire. If that isn't solemn I don't know what is.'

Miss Grizel Buchanan put down the long golf-stocking she was knitting,
and, over her spectacles, fixed her eyes on the strange young man who
had delayed till now the telling of this piece of news. She examined
him. In all her experience she had never come across anything like him.
Helen gave a little exclamation.

'My dear Mr. Kane, I do congratulate you,' she said.

'Why?' asked Franklin.

'Why, it's glorious news,' said Helen.

'I don't know about that,' said Franklin. 'I'm not a glorious person.
The mere fact of being a millionaire isn't glorious; it may be