"What do you call its success ?" "Let me ask you rather--mayn't I ?--what YOU call its failure." Mrs.Brook, who had been standing for some minutes, seated herself at this as if to respond to his idea.

But the next moment she had fallen back into thought.

"Have you often heard from him ?" "Never once." "And have you written ?" "Not a word either.

I left it, you see," Mitchy smiled, "all, to YOU." After which he continued: "Has he been with you much ?" She just hesitated.

"As little as possible.