mischievous smile which was one of her charms.

'Well, sir, do you approve?'

'By Jove, it is splendid--beautiful!'

'So glad! I hoped you would, since you are so fond of greys.
Besides, it is cooler in this weather. I hope you have not been
waiting.'

'Oh no, that's all right.'

'You looked so solemn when first I saw you.'

'Did I?'

'And then you just jumped.'

'Did I? I'm sorry.'

'Why?'

'I don't know. I like our feelings to be our very very own, and
never to show them to any one else at all. I dare say it is absurd,
but that is my instinct.'

'Never mind, dear, it wasn't such a big jump as all that. Where are
we going?'

'Come here, Maude, into the waiting-room.'