n her?

"But we are not all chiefly moved by economic considerations. Some of
our members have very considerable incomes, and might live where and how
they pleased, but they seem not less satisfied with our experiment than
are the poorer associates. There is such relief from care, and we may
see as much or as little society as we choose without offence or
burden."

Something interrupted Mrs. Malise's argument here, and I asked to see
baby.

"Mill? Oh, certainly, if you like; but we shall find him asleep."

And asleep he was in one of those dreary back rooms that are sure to be
sunless--a room that is both day and night nursery, I suppose, for there
was a hot fire, a close smell, and the German nurse sat making lace
under a gas jet flaming away unshaded.

He was very pale, poor little man! and has grown very fat--a soft,
sagging flesh! I remarked upon his pallor to his mother, and she
answered that he had measles about the time he was weaned, and that he
had never had much color since. But he seemed well, and was he not a
great stout fellow?

What treatment had he in measles? I asked. Oh, none! They didn't believe
in doctors over much, and thought nature managed best unhindered. Mill
was scrubbed with carbolic soap, and that was all the special treatment
he had.

Returning to the drawing-rooms, we found them rapidly filling with the
evening guests, and a busy hum of conversation going on. A slender,
graceful, feeble-looking young man entered just before us. "That is
Dodge, the famous medium," whispered my companion; but the words were
hardly uttered before the young man gave a sharp cry, flung his arms
wildly out, then sank as if prostrated on a near-by lounge. "Oh, what is
it? what is it, Mr. Dodge?" cried several persons, rushing to him.

"She! she!" was the answer, with difficulty, and then he languidly
pointed to a group of eager talkers under the chandelier. At the moment
Lady ----, one of the group, her white hair startlingly gleaming under
the full blaze of light, turned, with some sense of the commotion, and
as she did so called out, "Why, Dodge! Is it my old friend Dodge?" and
came toward him. The young man rallied, rose, and gave her his hand. "It
was so sudden," he explained. "Four years ago Lady ----'s hair had not a
white thread in it; and when I first caught sight of her, crowned by
that mass of snow, I quite believed it was her spirit I saw."

"A great deal may happen in four years," answered La