BUT NOT THE FROSTING WITHOUT THE CAKE, MARGARET!" "So!" she exclaimed, drawing a long breath when he had ended.

"So! THIS is why you chose that five o'clock train and sent Selina back.

You thought to--" He laughed as if echoing delight from her; he patted her enthusiastically on the knee.

"You've guessed it! Go up head! I didn't want you to have time to say and do foolish things." She bit her lip till the blood came.

Ringing in her ears and defying her efforts to silence them were those words of his about the cake and the frosting--"the cake, maybe with, maybe without frosting; BUT NOT THE FROSTING WITHOUT THE CAKE!" She started to speak; but it was no interruption from him that checked her, for he sat silent, looking at her with all his fiery strength of soul in his magnetic eyes.