" "He'll have hard work to do it by that time, father," remonstrated Thames; "you'd better let me help him. “Perhaps,” he said, “I have been to blame. She hissed in a breath and his eyes met hers. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world. Kent say to it?" "He thinks so highly of it, that he says if he had a daughter he would give her to the artist," answered Gay, a little maliciously. She decided that she would try to push whatever resolve he had in the car to see where it would lead. ” “It astonishes me that I don’t,” said Manning, in a tone of intense selfenjoyment. ” She slipped it on her finger, and added, in a voice she tried to make matter-of-fact: “It was given to me last week. It’s not fair to you. "I'm glad to find I'm right.