He got out on the second floor, one beneath them, and said,
"Pardon," as he passed, but not as a French word, nor yet as if it
were English.

During these few seconds Stella was quite aware that he had never
apparently looked at her.

"I call such an appearance sacrilegious," Mrs. Ebley said. "A man
has no right to imitate one of the blessed apostles in these
modern days; it is very bad taste."




CHAPTER II


Stella Rawson woke the next day with some sense of rebellion.
There came with the rest of her post a letter from her betrothed.
And although it was just such a letter as any nice girl engaged of
her own free will to the Bishop's junior chaplain ought to have
been glad to receive, Stella found herself pouting and criticizing
every sentence.

"I do wish Eustace would not talk such cant," she said to herself.
"Even in this he is unable to be natural--and I am sure I shall
not feel a thing like he describes when I stand in St. Peter's. I
believe I would rather go into the Pantheon. I seem to be tired of
everything I ought to like to-day!" And still rebellious she got