We have--we have one or two things covering the same ground already in hand." And he looked at his visitor with some curiosity.

It was a queer article to have come through Lawrence Cardiff.
Cardiff resented the look more than the rejection.

"It's of no consequence, thanks," he said drily.

"Very good of you to look at it.

But you print a great deal worse stuff, you know." His private reflection was different, however, and led him to devote the following evening to making certain additions to the sense and alterations in the style of Elfrida's views on "The Nemesis of Romanticism," which enabled him to say, at about one o'clock in the morning, "_Enfin!_ It is passable!" He took it to Elfrida on his way from his lecture next day.