But ten minutes later she saw Mr. Woods in the distance striding

across the sunlit terraces, and was seized with a conviction that

their interview was likely to prove a stormy one. There was an ominous

stiffness in his gait.

"Oh, dear, dear!" Miss Hugonin wailed; "he's in a temper now, and

he'll probably be just as disagreeable as it's possible for any one

to be. I do wish men weren't so unreasonable! He looks exactly like a

big, blue-eyed thunder-cloud just now--just now, when I'm sure he has

every cause in the

world