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168 A SOCIAL METFONR. will go at once. But what under the sun is the matter with her ?”’ “Of course. You see it’s as I said, the ab- sinthe was a little more than she could stand.” “It’s dreadful,’ she remarked quietly. “I wonder what Jack thinks ?” ‘“He looks as if he thought it were funny, and so I suppose it is, or would be if it was somebody else. If she had only waited now, until we were alone, before she tried the experiments of mixing drinks, as she did to-night. But of course she would have her own way, and may have to pay dearly for it.” ‘How ?” asked Georgie, anxiously. “She’ll feel like the mischief to-morrow, and then have the ‘blues’ for a week. But we can’t stand talking here; she’s looking at us now. Do you really think you can get along all right? Hadn’t I better send for Annette ?”’ “Not for the world. I would rather spare her the humiliation of having her maid see her under such circumstances. I can manage her quite well alone. Don’t worry.” “You know I return to Philadelphia to-mor- row,” he continued. “And I to R——” EOLMICLOCOKSa(EO