The bolero has retained its popularity throughout the whole of the season, and has quite superseded the longer jacket for afternoon and dress wear. There are also revers to nearly all dresses. But I am assured that our autumn novelties will be minus both these items, and that the long three-quarter coat is likely to be the garment of the winter. THE COURTSHIP OF CATHERINE WEST. CHAPTER IV. Granville Gray was sitting in the library of Lord Mayne’s town house. He was very busy, for though it was the recess, and his lordship was away shooting in Scotland, and all the political and fashionable world was dispersed in different directions, this was just the time that he could devote to his own pursuits, and to certain important investigations regarding the industrial life of the country by which he hoped some day to make his name. But his attention was not as undivided as usual. He would suddenly interrupt his work to walk up and down the room, or to gaze absently out of the window at the dusty lime trees that shaded the iron railing. For his work at the present moment was not an aim, but a distraction. Catherine’s sudden flight and the simultaneous appearance of Lady Blanche had made him realise how strong and genuine was his passion for the former. How precise, and commonplace, and conventional did the heiress appear beside the glorified recollection of the girl he loved, as she had stood trembling and clinging to him on the hillside. So when he read her little note, with its tender farewell, which convinced him of her affection for him at the same time as he became fully conscious of his own devotion, he resolved that no other woman should be his wife, and determined to set out in search of her at once. In spite, therefore, of Margaret’s remonstrances, he excused himself to Lady Blanche on the plea of urgent business, but he did not attempt to conceal the real state of the case from his sister. Margaret was really very much disappointed, and blamed herself exceedingly. She knew her brother well enough to realise that when he had once made up his mind, persuasion was useless; she was obliged to acquiesce, and to console herself with the thought that if she had been unwise in bringing her brother and friend together, Catherine was a very charming girl who could do him no possible discredit.