You know that I was going to San Francisco the day after to-morrow--" "Oh dear," said Adelaide, regretfully, "is it given up ?" He told her rather slowly the whole story.

The most terrible moment was, as he had expected, when he explained that they had met, he and Mathilde, to apply for their marriage license.

Adelaide turned, and looked full at her daughter.
"You were going to treat me like that ?" Mathilde burst into tears.

She had long been on the brink of them, and now they came more from nerves than from a sense of the justice of her mother's complaint.

But the sound of them upset Wayne hopelessly.