And from their list of commandments they obliterate one--"Judge not, that ye be not judged condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned." But, for the time being, Miss Gascoigne was puzzled.

Her stern reproof, her patronizing pity, were alike disarmed.

Her mountain seemed crumbling to its original mole-hill.

The heap of accusing evidence which she had accumulated dwindled into the most ordinary and commonplace facts at sight of Christian's innocent face and placid mien.

Nothing could be more unlike a woman who had ever contemplated the ordinary "flirting" of society.