sent the sad-faced footman in search of a delicatessen store, and
ate ravenously with a newspaper for table-cloth. By evening the
place found itself for once in its life clean and orderly, and the
two occupants dressed and went out to a near-by hotel for dinner.
Returning, they put the final touches to their task.

When Adoree left, late that night, she kissed her friend, saying:

"Thank you for the loveliest Sunday I ever had. It was splendid,
and I'll come again to-morrow."

The theatrical profession is full of women whose lives are
flawless; hence it had not been difficult for Lorelei to build up
a reputation that insured respect, although her connection with a
Bergman show made the task more difficult than it would otherwise
have been. During the two years of her stage experience no scandal
had attached to her name, and she had therefore begun to feel
secure. In that period she had met many men of the usual types
that are attracted by footlight favorites, and they had pressed
attentions upon her, but so long as she had been recognized as the
Lady Unobtainable they had not forced their unwelcome advances.
Now, however, that a scurrilous newspaper story had associated her
name with that of a wealthy man, she began to note a change. The
Hammon-Lynn affair was already notorious; Lorelei's part in it led
the stage-broken wiseacres to doubt her innocence, and their
altered attitude soon became apparent to her. There was a
difference also in the bearing of certain members of the company.
She heard conversations retailed at second hand by envious chorus-
mates; in her hearing detached remarks were dropped that offended
her. Bergman's advances had been only another disquieting symptom