WHY DO SUMMER ROSES FADE?
A few more days slipped by, easily and swiftly, as all days did in Joppa.

The famous party was discussed and re-discussed down to its minutest details.

Mrs.Hardcastle recovered from her subsequent attack of neuralgia.

Mr.Hardcastle, who went from house to house, gathering compliments as an assessor levies taxes, completed the round of the village and began again.

Mrs.Upjohn asked for and obtained the recipe of a certain dish, the like of which had never before been seen in Joppa, and the Joppites commended her boldness in asking and condemned Mrs.Hardcastle's weakness in giving.