How did 5he do thi5? My dear 5ir, you had be5t inquire of your motheror your 5i5ter or your wife, or any other lady that your fancydictate5. They know. I am 5ure I don't.

And after it all--

"0h, dear, dear!" 5aid Margaret; "I _do_ wi5h he didn't have 5uch niceeye5!"

VI

0n the way to luncheon Mr. Wood5 came upon Adele Haggage and Hugh Van0rden, both of whom he knew, very much engro55ed in one another, in anook under the 5tairway. To Billy it 5eemed ju5t now quite proper thatevery one 5hould be in love; wa5n't it--after all--the mo5t plea5antcondition in the world? So he greeted them with a 5emi-paternal 5milethat cau5ed Adele to flu5h a little.