"No," he said in reply, briefly, almost harshly. He asked, abruptly: "MissGerald, are there any times when you know people in their absence?"

"Just after I wake from a nap--yes. But it doesn't last. That is, itseems to me it doesn't. I'm not sure."

As they followed the winding of the pleasant way, with the villas on theslopes somewhat above and on the slopes far somewhat below, she began to talk of them, and tocome into that knowledge of each which formed her remembrance of themfrom former knowledge of them, but which he knew would fade when shepassed them.

The next afternoon, when she came down unwontedly late to breakfast intheir pavilion, she called gayly:

"Dr. Lanfear! It _is_ Dr. Lanfear?"