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"Run in often, won't you?" she said, at parting. "I hear but perhaps I shouldn't speak of that. Is is Lord Strathay like his pictures?" Fussy! She'd gladly wash her hands of me, yet thinks she has a duty. But I was glad, for once, to see her. It's not for nothing that I have run society's gauntlet; I can aim confetti with the best of them; innocent- looking but they hurt.

If I were superstitious or easily disheartened, I should say but I am neither! I shall succeed. I will take my place by right of beauty or die fighting! If I see Lord Strathay again, he shall marry me within a week. They shall call it "one of those romantic weddings." I can't live here alone.

I shall marry Strathay. February March April three long, long months, and still Ned doesn't come, does not write. Yes, it's time to act; thank God, I've still some pride!

Or he might just have told the plain truth that Father has a large Western farm. Englishmen think all Western folks are rich. Why, I believe Meg Van Dam would dower me if I were to marry Strathay. I could make it worth her while. It wouldn't be the first arrangement of that sort in New York, either.

I should have hated John if I had married him, for he'd expect love, where Strathay will be content to give it. Why, the one honest thing I've done was to break with John. I wish I could afford to keep on being honest! May 5. Lord deliver me from the well-meaning! Because of one pestilential dun, I've done what the weary waiting for money, money, money would never have driven me to do.

There's Meg Van Dam, now; surely she knows why I have come to her, and she was Milly's friend; yet she fawns upon me. I thought her a great person, but now I know she's eager to rise by hanging at my skirts, and I amuse myself with her joy that I've rejected Ned, as she thinks; with her talk of Strathay, her dismay at John Burke's wooing. John's so persistent.

See the hand-out he gave me for last Sunday full-page interview: 'Earl of Strathay Discusses American Society? "Some English won't stand for anything but a regular pie-faced story, but Strathay's a real good little man." "You said he had sixty-nine pairs of shoes," said Kitty reminiscently. "No; twenty-nine."

But I wasn't curious about it. I tried to read a newspaper, only to gather from some headlines that Strathay and his cousin were passengers by an out-going steamship. I wonder if it was all money, money, that kept him from me or was it more than half the fear of beauty? I couldn't read anything else, not even a note from Mrs.

Henry I might think that even then she suspected that Strathay There were a few correct, vapid young men in gray trousers and long frock coats among our guests that day, but none worth serious attention. And the women! One creature tucked tracks under the tea cloth, whereat Mrs. Whitney's pinched nose was elevated.

While Darmstetter lived, I couldn't have left New York; but now, now that I am safe, why should I stay here, flatting with a shrew, provoking the Van Dams, to whom I owe some gratitude, wasting my life for a man who who said he didn't love me? Milly's at home again; let Ned return to her, if he chooses. I shall marry Strathay. Meg shall be friend to a Countess.