and Katrine at the Countess de Nemours'.

"Tell me," said Katrine: "do you think any woman ever married the man
who was kindest to her?"

"It's unrecorded if it ever occurred," Dermott answered.

* * * * *

And a second, the truth of which is less open to dispute.

"Nora," Katrine asked, "could you ever have loved any but Dennis-your
first love?"

"No," answered Nora. "To an Irishwoman the drame comes but the wance."

E.M.L.




KATRINE

I

UNDER THE SOUTHERN PINES


Ravenel Plantation occupies a singular rise of wooded land in North
Carolina, between Way-Home River, Loon Mountain, and the Silver Fork.