smile of relief. "Oh, then you were with the General and Leila," she
said.

"Yes. Where did you think I was?"

"Nowhere," flushing.

He started up-stairs and then came back. "I wish you'd give me credit
for being able to keep a promise, Mary. You know what I told Con----"

"It wasn't that I didn't believe----" Mary crossed the dining-room and
stood in the door.

"Yes, it was. You thought I was with the old crowd. I might as well
go with them as to have you always thinking it."

"I'm not always thinking it."

"Yes, you are, too," hotly.

"Barry--please----"

He stood uneasily at the foot of the stairs. "You can't understand how
I feel. If you were a boy----"

She caught him up. "If I were a boy? Barry, if I were a boy I'd make
the world move. Oh, you | men, you have things all your own way, and
you let it stand still----"

She had raised her voice, and her words floating up and up reached the