ances, and
varied the routine of their honeymoon by incursions into biological
laboratories and medical libraries. Scientific friends were loud in
their congratulations, not only upon Mrs. Grey's beauty, but upon the
unusual quickness and intelligence which she displayed in discussing
physiological questions. The Professor was himself astonished at the
accuracy of her information. "You have a remarkable range of knowledge
for a woman, Jeannette," he remarked upon more than one occasion. He
was even prepared to admit that her cerebrum might be of the normal
weight.

One foggy, drizzling morning they returned to Birchespool, for the next
day would re-open the session, and Professor Ainslie Grey prided
himself upon having never once in his life failed to appear in his
lecture-room at the very stroke of the hour. Miss Ada Grey welcomed
them with a constrained cordiality, and handed over the keys of office
to the new mistress. Mrs. Grey pressed her warmly to remain, but she
explained that she had already accepted an invitation which would
engage her for some months. The same evening she departed for the
south of England.

A couple of days later the maid carried a card just after breakfast
into the library where the Professor sat revising his morning lecture.
It announced the re-arrival of Dr. James M'Murdo O'Brien. Their
meeting was effusively genial on the part of the younger man, and
coldly precise on that of his former teacher.

"You see there have been changes," said the Professor.

"So I heard. Miss Grey told me in her letters, and I read the notice
in the British Medical Journal. So it's really married you are. How
quickly and quietly you have managed it all!"

"I am constitutionally averse to anything in the nature of show or
ceremony. My wife is a sensible woman--I may even go the length of
saying that, for a woman, she is abnormally sensible. She quite agreed
with me in the course which I have adopted."

"And your research on Vallisneria?"

"This matrimonial incident has interrupted it, but I have resumed my
classes, and we shall soon be quite in harness again."

"I must see Miss Grey before I leave England. We have corresponded,
and I think that all will be well. She must come out with me. I don't
think I could go without her."

The Professor shook his head.

"Your nature is not so weak as you pretend," he said. "Questions of
this sort are, after all, quite subordinate to the great d