"Some dream you better forget about.

Come along; they are waiting on us." They passed up the steps together; and into the pleasant breakfast room, where the remainder of the company were already gathered.

Coolidge was again perfectly at his ease, genially greeting the guests, and had apparently already dismissed the incident from his mind.

Evidently even West did not consider it of any serious importance; he had clearly enough not recognized the intruder, and either decided the whole affair a freak of imagination, or else, at the worst, some midnight escapade of a servant.

But West's mind had in reality settled on a point which Coolidge overlooked.