white linen suit for you; it will look
so well turned inside out; and I am going to wear an organdie that has
a wonderful satin lining. There is no reason why we must be frumps."

"I'd rather stay home and play cribbage," Steve said, almost
wistfully. "There's a rain creeping up. Let's not go!"

"I hate staying home when it is raining." Beatrice went into her room
to try the effect of a sash wrong side out. "It is so dull in a big
drawing room when there are just two people," she added, as Steve
appeared in the doorway.

"Two people make a home," he found himself answering.

The Gorgeous Girl glanced at him briefly, during which instant she
seemed quite twenty-six years old and the spoiled daughter of a rich
man, the childish, senseless part of her had vanished. "Would you
please take Monster into the kitchen for her supper?" she asked,
almost insolently.

So the owner of the O'Valley Leather Works found his solace in tucking
the pound-and-a-half spaniel under his arm and trying to convince
himself that he was all wrong and a self-made man must keep a watch on
himself lest he become a boor!

* * * * *

The day the O'Valleys left for New York in company with three other
couples Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Vondeplosshe arrived in Hanover, having
visited until their welcome was not alone worn out but impossible ever
to be replaced. A social item in the evening paper stated that they
had taken an apartment at the Graystone and would be at home to their
friends--whoever they might be.

If Gay's club and his friends had determined merely to be polite and
not welcome his wife, Trudy had determined that they would not only
welcome her but insist upon being helpful to them; as for her former
associates--they would be treated to a curt bow. This, however, did
not include the Faithfuls. Mary was not to be ignored, nor did Trudy
wish to ignore her. All the good that was in Trudy responded to Mary's
goodness. She never tried to be to Mary--no one did more than once.
Nor did she try to flatter her. She was truly sorry for Mary's
colourless life, truly grieved that Mary would not consent to shape
her eyebrows. But she respected her, and it was to Mary's house that
Mrs. Vondeplosshe repaired shortly after her arrival.

It was quite true that Beatrice Constantine would have developed much
as Trudy had were the pampered person compelled to earn her living,
and, like Trudy, too, would have ma