r must be
decided, and so with a view of deciding it a family dinner party was
held at No. ---- Fifth Avenue, the day succeeding the call on Marian
Hazleton.

Very pure and beautiful Katy looked as she once more took her old place
in the chair they called hers at Father Cameron's, because it was the
one she had always preferred to any other--a large, motherly
easy-chair, which took in nearly the whole of her petite figure, and
against whose soft cushioned back she leaned her curly head with a
pretty air of importance, as after dinner was over, she came back to the
parlor with the other ladies, waiting for the gentlemen to join them,
when they were to talk up baby's name.

Katy knew exactly what it would be called, but as Wilford had never
asked her, she was keeping it a secret, not doubting that the others
would be quite as much delighted as herself with the novel name,
"Genevra." Not long before her illness she had read an English story,
which had in it a Genevra, and she had at once seized upon it as the
most delightful cognomen a person could well possess. "Genevra Cameron!"
She had repeated it to herself many a time as she sat with her baby on
her lap. She had written it on sundry slips of paper, which had
afterward found their way into the grate; and once she had scratched
with her diamond ring upon the window pane in her dressing-room, where
it now stood in legible characters, "Genevra Cameron!" There should be
no middle name to take from the sweetness of the first--only
Genevra--that was sufficient; and the little lady tapped her foot
impatiently upon the carpet, wishing Wilford and father would hurry and
come in.

Never for an instant had it entered her mind that she, as the mother,
would not be permitted to call her baby what she chose; so when she
heard Mrs. Cameron speaking to Helen of Margaret Augusta, she smiled
complacently, tossing her curls of golden brown, and thinking to
herself, "Maggie Cameron--pretty enough, but not like Genevra. Indeed
I shall not have any Margarets now; next time perhaps I may."

Since the party at Mrs. Grandon's, Mrs. Cameron had been very kind and
gracious to Helen, while Juno, who understood that Helen believed her
engaged to Mark, treated her with far more attention than before, and
now both kept near to her, chatting familiarly, Mrs. Cameron about the
opera, and Juno the matinee, to which they were to take her, without
waiting for Katy. Helen's success at the party, toge