Don't be less wise than she." He changed the subject, and would not go back to it; and after a few minutes he telephoned Adelaide, ordered a cart, and set out to take her for a drive.

Mrs.Whitney watched him depart with a heavy heart and so piteous a face that Ross was moved almost to the point of confiding in her what he was pretending not to admit to himself.

"Ross is sensible beyond his years," she said to herself sadly, "but youth is _so_ romantic.

It never can see beyond the marriage ceremony." Adelaide, with as much haste as was compatible with the demands of so important an occasion, was getting into a suitable costume.

Suddenly she laid aside the hat she had selected from among several that were what the Fifth Avenue milliners call the "_dernier cri_." "No, I'll not go!" she exclaimed.
Ever since her father was stricken she had stayed near him.