Anna picked up an ancient magazine, and began to turn over the pages in a leisurely way. She has had offers innumerable; for where wealth and beauty are combined, as in her instance, suitors are seldom wanting. She had lost it. At the back of her mind there seemed always one irrelevant qualifying spectator whose presence she sought to disregard. Had he had the child to think of, he might have recovered from his grief at Mary’s death. “Poor Lucy!” Cathy exclaimed as she rushed in the door, umbrella sheathed. Poor little one. Somehow or other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of those women with whom he had been brought into contact. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. . “You, too,” he said abruptly. It is queer how ideas pop into one's head. ‘I think you know my affianced husband. " "Tush!" cried Thames; "you accused me to skreen yourself. “I’d have to sneak out after everyone was asleep.
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