"Yes; she is my cousin." "So much the better for you. It's a liberal education to have a cousin as clever as that. Good-by. Thank you both for coming." She rang as she spoke, and handed the young men over to the maid who appeared; the maid in turn handed them over to the footman, and by him they were seen safely out of the house. As they turned away from the door, Ashe sighed deeply, while Wynne was smiling to himself. "What a--a--what a woman!" Philip said fervently. "She's amazing!" "Oh, yes," his friend laughed; "but what do you or I know about women anyway?" VI HEART-BURNING HEAT OF DUTY Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1. As Philip Ashe, his eyes cast down in earnest thought, approached Mrs. Frostwinch's gate that afternoon, he looked up suddenly to find himself face to face with Mrs. Fenton. She was dressed in dark, heavy cloth, set down the waist with small antique buckles of dark silver; and seemed to him the perfection of elegance and beauty. "Good morning, Mr. Ashe," she greeted him, smiling. "I did not expect to find you coming to hear Mrs. Crapps." "To hear Mrs. Crapps?" he echoed. "Who is Mrs. Crapps?" Mrs. Fenton turned back as she was entering the iron gate which between stately stone posts shut off the domain of the Frostwinches from the world, and marked with dignity the line between the dwellers on Mt. Vernon Street and the rest of the world. "Do you mean," asked she, "that you didn't know that Mrs. Crapps, the mind-cure woman, is to lecture here this afternoon?" Ashe drew back. "I certainly did not know it," he answered. "I was coming to speak to Mrs. Frostwinch about the election." "It's the last of three lectures," Mrs. Fenton explained. "Mrs. Crapps, you know, is the woman that has been curing Mrs. Frostwinch." Ashe stood hesitatingly silent in the gateway a moment. "I should like to see her," he said thoughtfully. "Not from mere curiosity, but because I cannot understand what gives these persons a hold over intelligent men and women." "The thing that gives her a hold over Mrs. Frostwinch is that she has raised her up from a bed of sickness. Come in with me, and see her. I should like to see how she strikes you. You can speak to Mrs. Frostwinch after the lecture."