"Even I can see that." "Such praise from a lady!" he exclaimed, laughing.

Geraldine smiled, too, and Naida's pallid face lightened for a moment.

But grief had set its seal on the house of Mallett; that was plain everywhere; and when Geraldine kissed Naida good-bye and walked to the door beside her lover, a passion of tenderness for him and his overwhelmed her, and when he put her into her brougham she leaned from the lowered window, clinging to his hand, careless of who might see them.
"_Can_ I help in any way ?" she whispered.

"I told you that my fortune is still my own--most of it----" "Dear, wait!" There was a strange look in his eyes; she said no more with her lips, but her eyes told him all.

Then he stepped back, directing Dunn to drive his mistress to the Commonwealth Club, where she was to lunch with Sylvia Quest, whom she had met that morning in the blockade at Forty-second Street, and who had invited her from her motor across the crupper of a traffic-policeman's horse..