"I have wardrobes full of them, and yet my husband insists upon taking me up to London to get something fit to wear!" "But not necessarily on your back!" cried Steel himself, appearing at that moment in his usual way, warm, breathless, but only playfully put out.

"My dear Mrs.Woodgate, I must have a special wire between your house and ours.

One thing, however, I always know where to find her! Did she tell you we go by the 12:55 from Northborough ?" It was something to wear upon her neck--a diamond necklet of superb stones, gradually swelling to one of the first water at the throat; and Rachel duly wore it at the dinner-party, with a rich gown of bridal white, whose dazzling purity had perhaps the effect of cancelling the bride's own pallor.

But she was very pale.

It was her first appearance at a gathering of the kind, not only there in Delverton, but anywhere at all since her second marriage.