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 column the other day. They'll be gone all summer or at least Alice and her mother will."

David thought of the plan which Alice and he had made. According to it, they would have been settled now in a flat upon one of the streets a half mile west of the lake in a neighborhood of moderate rents, where many young married people of the Sothrons' acquaintance were living. If he and she had carried through their plan, Alice would not have gone away this summer. He wondered how often their plan came to her mind and whether she found herself reckoning what she and he might be doing, if they had gone on as they had intended.

He found himself thinking of the people whom he had met through Alice and who naturally would have become his friends, if Alice and he had married. Occasionally he saw them on the street or in a car and, though they always spoke to him, no one suggested any improvement of acquaintance with him. The men were just the sort he would have liked to know; and he would have liked Fidelia to make friends with their wives. instead, she had to make her own friends at the hotel; and it was amazing to David how many friends she made, both women and men, and how the life of the hotel occupied her.

His day and hers began early; for he had his habit of early rising and Fidelia always got up with him. They slipped into bathing suits and, with moccasins on bare feet and robes about them, they went down to the water. He usually dove first and when he came up, she dived. He caught her as she came to the top and they laughed and splashed at each other and