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94 A SOCIAL METEOR. He took them and glanced them over, and then, as if ashamed of having suspected her, even fora moment, he flung them down impatiently. “Tt’s her own business whom she receives here, I suppose,” he said, shortly, ‘and Iveno right to interfere.” “Of course,” she admitted, sweetly. “Only,” determined to send a parting shaft, “it seems strange, as you say, that she should wish to see people here when she seemed to care so little about it when she was with me. Still, it’s not my place to find fault with her.” “IT wouldn’t care how many women Georgie had come to see her,’”’ he observed, returning to the subject a little later, “but I don’t think she ought to have men running here. I’m not jealous, but it isn’t the thing.” ‘“That’s just what I think. But of course I can’t say a word to her. Her grandmother, who sees a great deal of her,should do that. She’s not my guest now, you know. Besides, she receives her friends alone, as a rule; I seldom come into the room.” He paced up and down thoughtfully two or three time without speaking, Ray watching him slyly all the while under her halfclosed eyelids. Gomichboo CS (€(0)