At the sight of him two fresh waves passed quickly across her heart, one at the heels of the other. The first was an instant perception that this encounter was not an accident; the second a consciousness as prompt that the best place for it was the street. She knew before he told her that he had been to see her, and the next thing she knew was that he had had information from his mother. Her mind grasped these things while he said with a smile: "I saw only your back, but I was sure. I was over the way. I've been at your house." So the young man, following her attentively, appeared equally to feel. "So far as that goes," he promptly declared, "she has at last tired Mona out." He uttered the words with a strange approach to hilarity.!

"Then of course she won't like your changing." "Oh!" Fleda cried, with a long wail. Then she controlled herself. "I see."

"Well," said Mrs. Gereth profoundly, "it will be clear enough that Mona has." "I knew what I was about," said Owen. "It didn't strike me that she had the least right to come down on us that way and ask for explanations." "She was there, day before yesterday, only for a few hours. She met him in London and went down to see the things."