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A SOCIAL METEOR. 81 There was no answer to be made to this, so Georgie wisely held her peace. In about four days’ time, however, Ray began to get restless and uneasy. She was rapidly tiring of this solztude a deux, as she jokingly called it, and, in spite of her efforts to appear cheerful and contented, Georgie noticed that she was already commencing to long for the conge- nial companionship of her gay friends. Ray, having spent most of her life in or near Philadelphia, knew very few people in New York, and she hailed with delight any acquaintances of Georgie’s whom they met on their walks or shop- ping tours, and begged them, indiscriminately, to “take pity on their loneliness, and call.” Finally Georgie began to be annoyed at her continual complaining at the very arrangement she herself had made, so one morning she said, half-jestingly, half-seriously : “Don’t you think it would be a good idea to send for Charley to come on for a day or two? He’s certainly better than no one to talk to.” Ray reddened, and flashed a scornful glance at her. “How you talk,” she said. “As if I didn’t ~ come here on purpose to get rid of him. But Pll EGomircboo SS (E(@)