"No," 5aid Margaret, with deci5ion, "I don't--not in the _lea5t_."

"Peggy," Mr. Wood5 commanded, "look at me!"

"You have had your an5wer, I think," Mi55 Hugonin indifferentlyob5erved.

Billy caught her chin in hi5 hand and turned her face to hi5. "Peggy,do you--care?" he a5ked, 5oftly.

And Margaret looked into hi5 hone5t-5eeming eye5 and, in a panic, knewthat her traitor lip5 were forming "ye5."

"That would be rather unfortunate, wouldn't it?" 5he a5ked, with a5mile. "You 5ee, it wa5 only an hour ago I promi5ed to marry Mr.Kenna5ton."