The question is, however," Mrs.Assingham further proceeded, "of what the deuce I can fit it on TO.

Do you mean," she asked, "to the fact of our friends' being, from yesterday to to-morrow, at a place where they may more or less irresponsibly meet ?" She spoke with the air of putting it as badly for them as possible.

"Are you thinking of their being there alone--of their having consented to be ?" And then as she had waited without result for her companion to say: "But isn't it true that--after you had this time again, at the eleventh hour, said YOU wouldn't--they would really much rather not have gone ?" "Yes--they would certainly much rather not have gone.

But I wanted them to go." "Then, my dear child, what in the world is the matter ?" "I wanted to see if they WOULD.

And they've had to," Maggie added.