"How perfectly you are gotten up! Are you INSIDE, now?"

"Ah, do you remember that?" said he; "that's awfully good of you.
Which is so fortunate as to please you, my clothes or my deportment?"

"Both. They are very good. Where did you get them, Tommy? I shall
take the privilege of my age and call you Tommy."

"Thank you. The clothes? Oh, I asked Harry for the proper thing,
and he recommended a tailor. I think Harry gave me the manners, too."

"And your new principles?" She could not resist this little fling.

"I owe a great deal in that way to Harry, also," answered he,
with gravity.

Gone were the days of sarcastic ridicule, of visionary politics.
Tommy talked of the civil service in the tone of Harry himself.
He was actually eloquent.

"Why, Aunt Margaret, he is a remarkable young man,"
exclaimed Miss Van Harlem; "his honesty and enthusiasm are
refreshing in this pessimist place. I hope he will come again.
Did you notice what lovely eyes he has?"

Before long it was not pure good-nature that caused Mrs. Carriswood
to ask Fitzmaurice to her house. He was known as a rising young man,
One met him at the best houses; yet he was a prodigious worker, and had
made his mark in committees, before the celebrated speech that sent