"Yes, you had quite forgotten me," said Una, with a strange smile. Lady Bell flushed and looked at her. Her lovely face was pale and her eyes clouded with a strange look of pain and weariness. "Forgive me, my child," she said. "You are quite pale--you are tired. It is too hot. Wait! there are some ices coming." "No, no," said Una, with a sudden shrinking. "Please leave me--do not bring him here--I mean----" she stammered, "I would rather be alone. Go and dance, Lady Bell." "What a timid fawn it is," said Lady Bell, caressingly. "There, go and sit in the shade there. Don't be frightened; I promised to take care of you." "I am not frightened," said Una, quietly, "but I would rather----" "I understand," said Lady Bell, quickly; then she said, trying to speak carelessly and toying with her fan: "Did you see the gentleman I was speaking to, dear?" "Yes," said Una, calmly. "Don't you think that he is very handsome?" Una's heart beat so fast that she could scarcely speak. "Yes," she answered, at last. "What a cold Diana it is!" said Lady Bell, caressingly. "What an icy 'yes.' My dear, he is the handsomest man in the room." "Yes," said Una, sadly. Lady Bell looked at her. "I see, for all your yesses, that you don't think so," she said, with a laugh. "Do you know they call him the Savage, and that it is quite an achievement on my part to get him here? I made his acquaintance by accident. Mrs. Fellowes is quite shocked over it. But I always do as I like. I've got a fancy, Una--you'd never guess it." "What is it?" said Una, raising her dark eyes gravely to the beautiful, witching face. Lady Bell smiled. "I have a fancy for taming the Savage," she said, more to herself than to Una; "it will be so amusing." Una turned her head aside. "For him, do you mean?" she asked, in a low voice. Lady Bell stared at her, and her color came and went amusedly. "What a strange child it is! For him? No, for me! And--yes, for him too. What right has he to pretend to be invincible? Do you think I shall succeed?" Una looked at her with an aching heart. "Yes," she answered; "I think you will succeed." "What a flatterer it is!" said Lady Bell, playfully. "Hush! here he comes; half tamed already. Now for the first lesson," and, to Una's surprise she glided from the recess and was instantly lost in the crowd. A moment after Una saw her dancing with the duke. She drew back into the shadow and watched Jack. He came along slowly, the ice in his hand, and looked around for Lady Bell, with astonishment and something like anger in his face for a moment. Then he saw her dancing with the duke in the center of the room, looked round for some place to put the ice down, and, seeing none convenient, gently pitched it, plate and all, into a fountain, to the considerable astonishment of the gold fish.