Anderson was very sorry for the little lady, and genuinely alarmed himself with regard to Philip, whose physical condition seemed to him to have changed considerably for the worse since the Canadian journey.

His kindness, his real concern, melted Mrs.Gaddesden's heart.
"I hope we shall find you in town when we come up!" she said, eagerly, as they turned back to the house, forgetting, in her maternal egotism, everything but her boy.

"Our man here wants a consultation.

We shall go up next week for a short time before Christmas." Anderson hesitated a moment.
"Yes," he said, slowly, but in a changed voice, "Yes, I shall still be there." Whereupon, with perturbation, Mrs.Gaddesden at last remembered there were other lions in the path.

They had not said a single word--however conventional--of Elizabeth.