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Rh "Something broader, you mean," said Madge. "Something bigger than explaining text-books. I should think that you might make a good lawyer."

"That was my ambition when I first came to college."

"Have you another now? You don't appear to me to be a man who would give up easily."

"Thank you."

They sat down upon the edge of a rock, and Miss Hollingsworth asked him something about a statement that he had made in his little speech at the dinner.

What a grand pleasure it was thus to talk to her. All feeling of constraint left him, and to talk to a woman who is really interested and appreciates, is one of the greatest delights that a man can have on earth, especially if it gives him an excuse to look into her eyes, and to hear her voice replying to his. Neither of them noticed how quickly the time passed, until suddenly Madge raised her head.

"Here comes Mamma now," she said. "And Mary Bliss. It must be nearly luncheon time at the Inn."

Hart turned around and saw a tall woman