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find to say. I know that he had set his heart on a house in Mayfair, and that Helen had decided on one in Bloomsbury, near certain friends of hers; Bloomsbury, as you know, having become the fashion with a set of people whom Helen considers very desirable. I guessed what that high nose and long, unbeautiful chin indicated. Millie and John tactfully sided with both, for they feel that while Gordon is of course perfect, Helen can do no wrong. The little comedy has amused me considerably, and——"

Stephen was calling to her. She put down her pen and stepped out of the French window. She crossed the lawn with a pleasant rustle of long gray skirts, and he got out of his chair as she came toward him.

"What have you been doing all this long time?"

"Writing to Noel," she answered. "Have I neglected you?"

"I was beginning to think so. Come and take a walk round the garden with me."

"Where is Miss McPherson?"

"She's perpetrating one of her atrocious and painstaking water colors in the lane."

"And you tell her they are beautiful!"