Some big political meeting he had for to-night is off.

Lady Lucy stays in town--and Tallyn is shut up.

But Lady Felton was, of course, delighted to get him.

He arrived about noon.

Civility to his hostess kept him to luncheon--then he pursues us!" Since then!--no lack of sparkle in the eyes or color in the cheek! Yet even so, to Sir James's keen sense, there was an increase, a sharpening, in Diana's personality, of the wistful, appealing note, which had been always touching, always perceptible, even through the radiant days of her Tallyn visit.
Ah, well!--like Dr.Roughsedge, only with a far deeper urgency, he, too, for want of any better plan, invoked the coming lover.