I didn't intend coming to-night, as I told you.

But Miss de Gervais rang up from the theatre and begged me to come, so, of course, as she wished it--" "'As she wished it!' Are her wishes, then, of so much more importance than mine ?" Errington was silent for a moment.

At last he replied quietly:-- "You know they are not.

But in this case, in the matter of the play, she is entitled to every consideration." Diana's eyes searched his face.

Beneath the soft laces of her gown her breast still rose and fell stormily, but she had herself in hand now.
"Max, when I married you I took.