"Well, of all things!" exclaimed Mrs. Percival. "I should think she'd

feel pretty cheap."

"Why?" asked Dick, startled.

"Coming down to a nobody like that!" Lena retorted in scorn. "But I

think she has been going off in her looks lately, and I dare say she

knows it, and is glad to get even him."

The billiard room was empty, and Dick went in and shut the door.