Pray come tomorrow, Monsieur Fauchery." Lucy Stewart heard this invitation given while she was talking with Steiner and Blanche and, raising her voice, she remarked to the banker: "It's a mania they've all of them got.

One of them even went so far as to steal my dog.

Now, dear boy, am I to blame if you chuck her ?" Rose turned round.

She was very pale and gazed fixedly at Steiner as she sipped her coffee.

And then all the concentrated anger she felt at his abandonment of her flamed out in her eyes.