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46 A SOCIAL METEOR. my dear little woman, but love is too serious a feeling to be talked of so lightly.” “Love is delightful,” observed Ray, with the air of a sage, “and ‘comes like a summer sigh.’”’ “Much you know about it, you pious little fraud! Certainly the sentiments you entertain toward that precious husband of yours can scarcely be dignified by so sacred a name.” “No, it’s true my ‘better half’ is scarcely the sort of person to inspire the grande passion, but I can imagine what it must be like. Ah, I am sure it is bliss.” ‘No doubt, and yet it causes a sight of unhap- piness, sometimes. But joking aside, Ray, is there any one in whom Miss Wheatley is partic- ularly interested just now ?” “T thought you’d come around. Do you really wish to know? Well, then, I'll tell you what I honestly think. I ¢hzzk she fancies you much more than she does any one she has met here.” Mr. Grant’s whole face lighted up with pleasure, but he was blissfully unconscious of the fact. “But how about anywhere else? I heard——” “Yes, no doubt you heard all about her re- centengagement. Disagreeable news travels fast. Who told you? Some one, I’ll warrant, who did. Gomicbooks (E@)