If you have a relation on the City Council, it makes a vast difference to your chances.

We've no friends at Court." "Oh!" said Bess, rather abstractedly, and the subject dropped.
The girls had only time for one game of tennis, when the stable-clock, chiming half-past six, reminded Ingred that if she wished to do her preparation that evening she must rush back to the hotel.

She bade Bess a reluctant good-by.
"You'll come and see me again ?" asked the latter.
"Rather! And I'll send thought-waves to animate my portrait, and let it talk for me in my absence," laughed Ingred.

"Perhaps you'll get more than you bargain for--I'm an awful chatter-box." "You'll never talk too much for me," said Bess, as she kissed her good-by..