a man breathing who's good enough for her!"

Kennaston grinned. "Oh, Kathleen, Kathleen!" he said; "you are simply

delicious."

And Mrs. Saumarez coloured prettily and tried to look severe and

could not, for the simple reason that, while she knew Kennaston to be

flippant and weak and unstable as water and generally worthless, yet

for some occult cause she loved him as tenderly as though he had been

a paragon of all the manly virtues. And I dare say that for many of us

it is by a very kindly provision of Nature that all women are created

capable of doing this illogical thing and that most of them do it