"When we were kids."

"Oh, like that, is it? Well, ask me to come along too."

"My dear fellow--come by all means."

Jimmy was rather pleased at the suggestion. "You'll like Mrs.
Wyatt--she's one of the best."

"And--Christine?"

"Oh she's all right; but she's only a child still," said Jimmy
Challoner with all the lordly superiority of half a dozen years.




CHAPTER V

SANGSTER TAKES A HAND

"And so you and Jimmy were children together," said Arthur Sangster.

The curtain had just fallen on the first act, and the lights turned up
suddenly in the theatre had revealed Christine's face to him a little
flushed and dreamy.

Sangster looked at her smilingly. Jimmy had called her a child; but he
had not said how sweet a child she was, he thought, as his eyes rested