The look in her eyes when she nursed her friends' babies had often hurt him.

But after all, why despair?
It was only four years from their wedding day.
But he was not going to be beaten in the matter of Crosby Ledgers.

They had a long and heated discussion, at the end of which Doris surrendered.
"Very well! I shall have to spend a week in doing up my old black gown, and it will be a botch at the end of it.

But--_nothing--will induce me_--to get a new one!" She delivered this ultimatum with her hands behind her, a defeated, but still resolute young person.

Meadows, having won the main battle, left the rest to Providence, and went off to his "den" to read all his letters through once more--agreeable task!--and to write a note of acceptance to the Home Secretary, who had asked him to luncheon.