flourish. He seems to know the very actors and actresses for the leading parts. Isn't it lucky? Mr. Colebridge seems almost as pleased about it as I am myself. Judy says he is doing it for me, but of course that's nonsense. He says he has no doubt that the plays will put Judy and Chip 'on Easy Street.'
"Now that I call gallant. To make your rival's fortune is not the end and aim of most disappointed lovers. There is style about that. I like Mr. Colebridge. He comes here quite often to see Stephen and me, and while I admit that I like him and—yes—even admire him, I do not, I confess, like him best when he is sitting in my garden, oblivious to its beauties and to the cajoleries of a most divine autumn, talking about sugar stocks. I like him better when he has gone, and I think how good-natured it was of him to have come, and how nice he really is.
"Chip's book on religions is in the hands of the publishers at last. I haven't read it. Neither has Judy. He is extraordinarily shy and sensitive about it, and Judy says she has twice saved it from destruction at his hands. I feel it must be good. It may even be great! Well, we shall know some day.
"There's very little about Gordon that I can