36 DIGGING A GRAVE WITH “? ' WINE-GLASS.

and that what she’d have to do, would be
to go on— never minding and seeing nothing.
She could form no idea of what delayed
Peggy, who was, for an Irish woman, aston-
ishingly punctual; but she was thankful that
Peggy had not seen Terence ‘ overtaken,’’
and wondered how she could conceal the
terrible facts from her. |

Should she, or should she not, go to.
Woburn place without Peggy? The clock _
chimed the quarter; shading her eyes with
her hand, she gazed over the crowd for
Peggy’s peculiar bonnet and gay-colored hand-
kerchief, in vain, and then took her ay
to Woburn Place.