Indirectly, I look upon her as the cause of his death, for if she had not driven both of us out of our own home, my father might have been alive still.

I shall not call on Mrs.Vrain, and I do not think she will dare to call on me." "I'm not so sure of that," rejoined Lucian, who was well acquainted with the lengths to which Mrs.Vrain's audacity would carry her; "but let us dismiss her, with all your other troubles.

May I call on you again before you leave town ?" "Occasionally," replied Diana, smiling and blushing; "and you will come down to Berwin Manor when I send you an invitation ?" "I should think so," said Denzil, in high glee, as he rose to depart; "and now I will say----" "Good-bye ?" said Miss Vrain, holding out her hand.
"No.

I will use your own form of farewell--_au revoir_." Then Lucian went out from the presence of his beloved, exulting that she had proved so kind as not to dismiss him when she no longer required his services.

In another woman he would not have minded such ingratitude, but had Diana banished him thus he would have been miserable beyond words.