trust lady visitors on its premises alone."

"But who's to know I'm alone? With a lot of men in the
drawing-room, how's each to know that I'm not with the others?"

"That would shock Rickie," said Agnes, laughing. "He's
frightfully high-principled."

"No, I'm not," said Rickie, thinking of his recent shiftiness
over breakfast.

"Then come for a walk with me. I want exercise. Some connection
of ours was once rector of Madingley. I shall walk out and see
the church."

Mrs. Lewin was accordingly left in the Union.

"This is jolly!" Agnes exclaimed as she strode along the somewhat
depressing road that leads out of Cambridge past the observatory.
"Do I go too fast?"

"No, thank you. I get stronger every year. If it wasn't for the
look of the thing, I should be quite happy."

"But you don't care for the look of the thing. It's only ignorant
people who do that, surely."

"Perhaps. I care. I like people who are well-made and beautiful.
They are of some use in the world. I understand why they are
there. I cannot understand why the ugly and crippled are there,