Scarce had she gone a hundred yards when a dark figure in overcoat and a golf-cap loomed up before her, and she found Walter at her side.
"Why, dearest!" he exclaimed, taking her hand and bending till he pressed it to his lips, "I began to fear you wouldn't come.

Why haven't I seen you to-night ?" "Because--well, because I had a bad headache," was her lame reply.

"I knew that if I went in to dinner mother would want me to sing, and I really didn't feel up to it.

I hope, however, you haven't been bored too much." "You know I have!" he said quickly in a low, earnest voice.

"I came here purposely to see you, and you were invisible.