I could look at that he had her arm under the table. It really was sickning.

Jane came to look at me after lunch. The wedding was that evening, and Ihad to sit through silver vegatable dishes, and after-dinner coffeesets and plates and a grand piano and a set of platinum vazes and acabushon saphire and the bridesmaid's clothes and the weddingsupper and heaven knows what. But at last she said:

"You dear skinnyg--how weary and wan you look!"

I closed my eyes.

"But you don't intend to give him up, do you?"

"Look at me!" I exclaimed, in imperious tones. "Do I look like one whowould give him up, because of Familey objections?"

"How brave you are!" she observed. "Bab, I am green with envy. WhenI think of the way he looked at you, and the tones of his voicewhen he made love to that--that creature, I am posatively SHAKEN."

We sat in somber silence. Then she exclaimed:

"I darsay he detests the Heroine, doesn't he?"

"He tolarates her," I exclaimed, with a shrug.

More silense. I rang for Jane to bring some ice water. We were inmy B0UD0IR.

"I saw him yesterday," exclaimed Jane, when Hannah had gone.

"Jane!"

"In the park. He was with the woman that plays the Adventuress.Ugly very aged thing."