"No," said Paul, "it can't be worse than that." He came and sat on the sofa, too, and there was silence once more. He put out his hand to find hers, and she gave it him and laughed softly. "I have an idea," she said irrelevantly. "We must marry Ted to Marion." "We?" said Paul, smiling. And she laughed again. "Isn't it ridiculous," she said, "after all our views about marriage and so on,--to end in behaving just like any one else who never had any views at all?" "Yes," agreed Paul. "We haven't even stuck to our priggishness." "_We?_" exclaimed Katharine. But there is always a limit to a man's confessions, and Paul's was never finished. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _AT THE RELTON ARMS._ Miss Evelyn Sharp is to be congratulated on having, through the mouth of one of her characters, said one of the wisest words yet spoken on what is rather absurdly called "The Marriage Question" (page 132). It is an interesting and well-written story, with some smart characterisation and quite a sufficiency of humour.--_Daily Chronicle._ A delightful story. The most genuine piece of humour in a book that is nowhere devoid of it, is that scene in the inn parlour where Digby finds himself engaged to two young women within five minutes; while the two brief colloquies of the landlady and her cronies make one suspect that the author could produce an admirable study of village humour.--_Athenæum._ A distinctly clever book, of a fresh conventionality.--_Academy._ _WYMPS: FAIRY TALES._ _With 8 coloured Illustrations and decorated cover by Mabel Dearmer._ Of the stories it is impossible to speak too highly; they are true fairy literature, and the most exigent taste will be satisfied with them.--_Truth (London)._ [Illustration] A FLY-LEAF POEM. (_To a little girl with a story-book,--"Wymps," by_ EVELYN SHARP). Here, in this book, the wise may find A world exactly to their mind. From fairy kings to talking fish, There's everything such people wish. Sweeter little maid than you Never read a story through. Through a sweeter little book Little maid shall never look. MR. WILLIAM WATSON in _The Academy_. The simple brilliancy of the cover alone reveals something of the hidden delights of these charming new stories.--_Punch._ Quite the most gorgeously coloured book of the season. In a red, green, and yellow cover that puts to the fade even a French poster, and with most marvellous pictures, excelling even the cover, the volume must take a literally blazing place on a child's book-shelf. "Wymps" has other attractions,--six, _original_ fairy stories. Now, originality is a rare thing in fairy stories, so that altogether we find the book unique.--_Literary World (Boston)._ JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD VIGO ST W. _Telegrams_ "BODLEIAN LONDON" CATALOGUE _of_ PUBLICATIONS _in_ BELLES LETTRES LIST OF BOOKS IN BELLES LETTRES