r came . . .

    S on like te and a  t off. Ser of an leman h her.

    epped into t look at me at first. his eyes were all for Maud. he said,

    Miss Lilly, you are kind to receive me ravel-stained and tumbled as I am. t is like you!

    le. As for tains— a mark upon o . idy;  little ring on  finger, but apart from t his hands were bare and very clean.

    to be—a leman. urned to me at last, I found myself making sey and  shy.

    And , co I sepped toook my o me.  Briar, Sue. I ress.

    I said, I oo, sir.

    She is a very good girl, said Maud. She is a very good girl, indeed.

    S in a nervous, grateful kind of  to a stranger, feeling pusion, about your dog.

    Gentleman pressed my  it fall.   be good—I s be good, Miss Lilly—h you as her example.

    rose again. You are too kind, she said.

    at leman could but be, o be kind to,

    No  last s hen she laughed.

    And I t t time, t . S—I kne, seeing and beside h her eyes on his.

    Pigeons and geese. t clock sounded, and tarted and looked aleman said  oo long. I s supper, I h your uncle?

    itly.

    to t out of it o remember me, and  tomime, of patting at s, looking for coins. o take it.

    ed my . It  Maud s overhear.

    I said, Osey, and o do toget  recommend you try it: for I fear tsey; and Im certain tsey the wink.

    I dont tleman noticed, isfied  us. Maud looked once at me, t silently to  knoil ser, to o her gown for dinner.

    I sat and tossed