mode of life—entertaining, see all the shows, oh, we'll have a wonderful time this fall and winter, Carmelita! Don't think I haven't appreciated what you've gone through with me. I love you all the more for it."
"And I've never loved you so much as at this minute, Dudley," she caressed him. He had evidently forgotten all about Rao-Singh. If he would only let her get away and transact her business quickly with the Hindu and clear her conscience once and for all.
"If you've got any debts here in connection with the house," he went on rather grandly, "I want you to go right ahead and pay them out of your check-book. The money is yours and you don't have to account to me for it in any way. "It was such a delicious sensation to be able to say things like that to her at last that he could have gone on saying them forever.
"Don't you want to change your clothes, Dudley? It's been so fearfully hot and, poor boy, you've hurried so to get out here and tell me your wonderful news." While he was busy doing it, she could, she thought—
"What I'd like to do," he answered, "is to take a little dip in the Sound. It's rather late in the day for that, I know, but I know I'd feel right on the crest after a couple of dives. Don't suppose you'll come along. I see you're
