MRS.

BAXENDALE'S QUESTS A servant went to Banbrigg each morning for tidings; Emily, so the report said, moved steadily towards recovery.

On the second day after Wilfrid's arrival Mrs.Baxendale took him with her in the brougham, and let him wait for her whilst she made a call upon Mrs.Hood; Wilfrid saw an upper window of which the blind was down against the sun, and would gladly have lingered within sight of it.

Beatrice had excused herself from accompanying the two.
'I believe,' Mrs.Baxendale said on the way, 'she has gone to some special service at St.Luke's.' She was mistaken, though Beatrice had in truth been diligent at such services of late.

'Now there,' she added, 'is a kind of infatuation I find it difficult even to understand.