"I suppose she once had a lover, too." "And very likely met him in the room of Chinese antiquities in the Temple Museum," said Pete, and then, changing his tone, he added: "But come along.

I want to show you a few little things which I have selected to furnish our home.

I think you'll like them." Pete was always inventing games like this, and calling on her to enter in without the slightest warning.

One of them was about a fancy ball he was giving in the main hall of the Pennsylvania Station.

But this new idea, to treat the whole museum as a sort of super-department store, made her laugh in a faint, dependent way that she knew Pete liked.