"I'm glad to hear that. I don't care to do customary things as a rule."

"I see that you don't."

"Do you say so because I show what I am thinking so plainly that you can't
help seeing it--and don't in the least mind?"

"Why shouldn't you be glad to be alive and to be seeing me this fine winter
day?"

"Why indeed!" Howard looked at her from head to foot and then into her
eyes.

"We are not in the Park yet." Miss Trevor accompanied her hint with a laugh
and added: "I feel reckless to-day."

"You mean you forget that there is any to-morrow. _I_ have shut out
to-morrow ever since I saw you."

"And yesterday?" She noted that he coloured slightly, but continued to look
at her, his eyes sad. "But there is a to-morrow," she went on.

"Yes--my work, my career is my to-morrow and yours is----"

"Well?"

"Your engagement, of course."

Miss Trevor flushed, but Howard was smiling and she did not long resist the