een vibrating consciousness poised above t nig expand unrestrainedly in t,  ting ts of t and ture.

    `to z again, said Stepo speak to  glance and tone of subdued tenderness o tones bring try o a room t is ifling ation.

    `to z again: it is rato look on and t a little?

    ook  o tting-room, reion of visitors  to look at t no visitors . to tory.

    `range and unreal trees and flos among to an enced land, and hey were all made of jewels.

    S tier of geraniums as sep   a supreme poet blend ligo one, calling darkness mute, and lig? Sometrangely po of Step made Maggies face turn to and look up it - slo tness. And teadily on,  feeling t t feeling anyt t long grave mutual gaze o all deep  t t and e confession more intense in its rapture.

    But tory, and o pause and turn. t brougo Maggie: surned ao smell tepood motionless and still pale.

    `O may I get t effort to say somete trievable confession. `I te o gatill t left.

    Stepe: ting a sentence toget tle upo tracted  felt ty of a ions of tenderness t lie in tly lessening curves doo te  s tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in tness. A ouc sculptor t  an image of it for till as it clasps lovingly time- ints of life.

    A mad impulse seized on Steped to, clasping t.

    But t moment Maggie snatc from  ion.

    ` rigo insult me?

    Sed from o ting and trembling.

    A  reaco Lucy, to Po ter soul. t momentary ten  - a leprosy: Step more lighan he did of Lucy.

    As for Step tory, d