Eugene spent precious little money on any entertainment, but he thought he could venture this. She would not be down often. Then, too, he had the notion that he might get a rise one of these days--that would make a difference. When she came again he would be in art school, opening up another field for himself. Life looked hopeful. "That's so nice of you," she replied. "And when I come I'll let you know. I'm just a country girl," she added, with a toss of her head, "and I don't get to the city often." Eugene liked what he considered the guileless naivete of her confessions--the frankness with which she owned up to simplicity and poverty. Most girls didn't. She almost made a virtue out of these thing--at least they were charming as a confession in her. "I'll hold you to that," he assured her. "Oh, you needn't. I'll be glad to let you know." They were nearing the station. He forgot, for the moment that she was not as remote and delicate in her beauty as Stella, that she was apparently not as passionate temperamentally as Margaret. He saw her wonderfully dull hair and her thin lips and peculiar blue eyes, and admired her honesty and simplicity. He picked up her grip and helped her to find her train. When they came to part he pressed her hand warmly, for she had been very nice to him, so attentive and sympathetic and interested. "Now remember!" he said gaily, after he had put her in her seat in the local. "I won't forget." "You wouldn't mind if I wrote you now and then?" "Not at all. I'd like it." "Then I will," he said, and went out. He stood outside and looked at her through the train window as it pulled out. He was glad to have met her. This was the right sort of girl, clean, honest, simple, attractive. That was the way the best women were--good and pure--not wild pieces of fire like Margaret; nor unconscious, indifferent beauties like Stella, he was going to add, but couldn't. There was a voice within him that said that artistically Stella was perfect and even now it hurt him a little to remember. But Stella was gone forever, there was no doubt about that.