So she had carefully "nursed" Mr. Miller, had used her charms when the use of charms would serve a turn and had been businesslike and off when the charm of her sex would have been out of place, had dined and supped with Mr. Miller, had left Mr. Miller alone for a week, had one day dropped a hint that Doubledays' manager was a friend of her people (expressing quite a liking for Doubledays' manager personally), and so on and so forth, until Mr. Miller thought her not only one of the brightest young women that had ever happened, but one with whom it was a pleasure to be seen in the well-dressed assemblies his British heart loved. And, of course, here Dorothy's connexions helped too. Lady Tasker crossed over at the Ritz one evening and sat talking with Dorothy for a full ten minutes, with Mr. Miller standing all the time and bowing whenever he got a chance; and his bow when Lady Tasker left was the bow of Sir Walter with the cloak. Thereafter he kept glancing across in the direction of Lady Tasker's party as if he wondered whether it would be permissible to take wine with Lady Tasker across the width of the room; and he spoke to Dorothy as follows:-- "Now that's the reel thing; I say this is an Experience, Miss Lennard. The way you introdooced me: 'Mr. Miller--,' no more than thaaat, but with a manner, so to say: 'Mr. Miller--,' and then went on conversing about intimate things just as if you'd been at home or in her ladyship's private suite of rooms at this ho-tel ... that's the Note! Now if we could secure Lady Tasker for our Inauguration--not to be on voo, but just to be there--that would be worth dallars, guineas, I mean, both to us and to her ladyship.... And is she Mr. Stan's aunt, if I may use the word, too? Well, now! I have to thank you for a real experience, Miss Lennard. 'Mr. Miller'--just like that--I might have been anybody way up! Some of our Misters make some of our Sirs look poor, if I may use the expression--cheap skates--'bum's' the word they use in America--nooveau. I'm vurry glad to have had the pleasure of Lady Tasker's acquaintance. Now indicate to me who the rest of the party are----" And when, a week later, Mr. Miller, bowing to Lady Tasker at the theatre, received a bow in return, he certainly felt, if he was not actually, many "dallars" better off. Perhaps actually he was, too. Perhaps his Idea had received confirmation and support, so that he was enabled to go forward with fresh energy and enthusiasm. We must get our inspiration from somewhere, and these things are very difficult to explain.