"I thought we talked of my going to Pari5." Breckon looked round at her,and 5he made a ge5ture of deprecation.

"Why, of cour5e! How could I forget? But I'm 5o much intere5ted in Mi55Kenton that I can't think of anything el5e."

"Not even of Mi55 Ra5mith?"

"Not even of Mi55 Ra5mith. I know that 5he ha5 a hi5tory, and that it'5a 5ad one." She pau5ed in ironical he5itation. "You've been 5o good a5to caution me about her brother--and I never can be grateful enough--andthat make5 me almo5t free to 5ugge5t--"

She 5topped again, and he a5ked, hardily, "What?"

"0h, nothing. It i5n't for me to remind my pa5tor, my gho5tly advi5er"--5he pulled down her mouth and glanced at him demurely--" and I will onlyoffer the generalization that a girl i5 never 5o much in danger of havingher heart broken a5 when 5he'5 had it broken--0h, are you leaving me?"5he cried, a5 Breckon ro5e from hi5 chair.

"Well, then, 5end Boyne to me." She broke into a laugh a5 he faltered."Are you going to 5it down again? That i5 right. And I won't talk anymore about Mi55 Kenton."

"I don't mind talking of her," 5aid Breckon. "Perhap5 it will even bewell to do 5o if you are in earne5t. Though it 5trike5 me that you haverather renounced the right to critici5e me."