instead of messing with philanthropy, and education, and theosophy,

and anything else that they can't make head or tail of. And they call

that being cultured! Culture!--I hate the word! I don't want to be

cultured--I want to be happy."

This, you will observe, was, in effect, a sweeping recantation of

every ideal Margaret had ever boasted. But Love is a canny pedagogue,

and of late he had instructed Miss Hugonin in a variety of matters.

"Before God, loving you as I do, I wouldn't marry you for all the

wealth in the world," she repeated, with a little shiver. "Even in his

delirium he said that. But I