ple according to the company they keep. As far as I
have known her, she periodically deserts her old friends for more
eligible new ones. She thought she had done with you, and she wished
to be done with you, because you interfered with Harry."

"So, then, if I go to Rose's dance, she will be sure I have done so
for an opportunity to interfere with Harry once more."

"Then go for that very purpose. I would. I am provoked to death with
the young man. He has refused all my invitations--very sorry to do
so--but--"

"But he did not want to come. He evidently does not care to meet me
again. It is very humiliating."

"He _fears_ to meet you again. And I think, Yanna, you made him drink
a very humble cup. Men do not readily forgive such wounds to their
self-esteem."

"Harry has disappointed me. I hear nothing good of him."

"I wouldn't quite believe all Rose said on that subject. It is true
that he is running a fast rig with a lot of gilded goslings, whose
money came from industrious, economical ancestors. And it is also true
that Harry has but a small inherited income, and must depend largely
upon the results of his transactions in Wall Street; and that,
therefore, he is simply going to poverty in very swagger company. But
nothing else will cure him of his folly; not his father's advice, nor
his mother's tears, nor love, nor honor, nor any good thing. Only
poverty cures extravagance. Some day he will doubtless be sorry
enough. Harry's great want in life is a friend who will make him do
what he can do."

"It is a want we all share."

"Then be a friend, and make me do what I can do."

"You can do the thing you sketched out for yourself and others to
Professor Snowdon. Bring together all the pure Dutch gentlewomen you
know. Then begin your benevolent Holland Society. You are a fine
organizer, and excel in setting every one around you either to work or
play."

"Now, Yanna, it is my turn. Your duty is to forgive Emma Filmer, and
to do good to her just because she did evil to you--which is a nice
way of saying, go to the Filmer ball, and be as lovely to Harry as
possible."

"You know father does not like me to go to dances; and Mrs. Filmer
will not understand my presence in the light you put it. She does not
think I have been badly used, and she would not consider my being
'lovely to Harry' a kindness. I would rather talk no more on that
subject."

"Very well." Miss Alida said the words with an air of disappointment