Alphonse presented his friend at once, and here Phillip felt more at his ease, being a better dancer than talker, and asked for the honour of a waltz without delay.
"I have but two left," answered Mademoiselle de Clericy, with a gay glance of happiness towards her mother.

"They are at the end of the programme, and I promised to reserve them for Monsieur Howard." She handed him her engagement card, in frank confirmation of this statement.
"R.

H.," said Gayerson, deciphering the initials Lucille herself had scribbled.

"If this is Dick Howard I will take the first of his two dances, and risk the consequence.

It will not be the first time that Dick and I have fallen out." [Illustration: "THEN YOU KNOW MR.