employed getting the will (which she had carried all this time) into

an absurd little silver chain-bag hanging at her waist. She had no

time to look at Felix Kennaston. There was such scant room in the bag;

her purse took up so much space there was scarcely any left for the

folded paper; the affair really required her closest, undivided

attention. Besides, she had not the least desire to look at Kennaston

just now.

"Beautiful child," he pleaded, "look at me!"

But she didn't.

She felt that at that moment she could have looked at a gorgon, say,