"Not that time.

Do you hear him?
--'Could ye come back to me, Douglas' ?" "Oh, but it isn't absence that is killing him and his friends," cried one of the young women.

"It is Brainard Macauley." "That is a mistake," said Tom Meredith, as easily as he could.

"There goes Jim's double quartette.

Listen, and you will hear them try to----" But the lady who had mentioned Brainard Macauley cried indignantly: "You try to change the subject the moment it threatens to be interesting.
They were together everywhere until the day she went away; they danced and 'sat out' together through the whole of one country-club party; they drove every afternoon; they took long walks, and he was at the Sherwoods' every evening of her last week in town.