DAISY 33

When | heard Baisy returning, | went to the
door. ®he came hurrying along, firmly holding
the disconsolate-looking, yellow animal under her
arm. “A blank look overspread her face when
she saw that | was sole occupant of the hall.
«Where is Mithter Wobertsen 2” she inquired
of me in a dignified way.

« te has gone out,” | said, as gently as |
could. «Won't you come and talk to me for a
little while 2” Bisregarding the latter part of
my sentence, she said mournfully, «Do you weally
fink so?”

| nodded my head. She let the cat slip to
the floor; with a wrathful “Get downstairs, you
wetched beast,’ and then went silently away.
There was a little, dark corner near a back stair-

case, to which she often retreated in times of