He went very busily on with his handwashing. She knew exactly how he was smiling, and hidden in her corner smiled back, invisibly, and made unnecessary clatterings to hide the glorious embarrassment. Dismay struck across her joy, revealing the future as a grey, laborious working out of this moment's blind satisfaction. But joy had spoken first and left her no choice. Startling her with the revelation of the way the roots of her being still centred in him. Joy deeper and more powerfully stirring than the joy of the past weeks. They showed now a spread embroidery of sunlit scenes, powerless, fundamentally irrelevant, excursions off the main road of her life. Committed beyond recall, she faced the prospect of unvarying, grinding experience. The truth hidden below the surfaces of life was to yield itself to her slowly, imperceptibly, unpleasurably. She got through the necessary things at top speed, anyhow, to avoid underlining his need of her, and ran downstairs. A letter on the hall table, from _Hypo_.... _Dear Miriam--I've headed off that affair. You've pulled me out of it. You really have. When can I see you? Just to talk._ A LIST OF THE LIBRARIES AND SERIES OF COPYRIGHT BOOKS PUBLISHED BY DUCKWORTH & CO. 3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON, W.C.2 THE LIBRARY OF ART Embracing Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, etc. Edited by Mrs S. Arthur Strong, LL.D. Extra cloth, with lettering and design in gold. Large cr. 8vo. (7¾ in. by 5¾ in.). 7s. 6d. net a volume. Postage 7d. LIST OF VOLUMES REMBRANDT. By G. Baldwin Brown, of the University of Edinburgh. With 45 plates. ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO. By Maud Cruttwell. With 50 plates. VERROCCHIO. By Maud Cruttwell. With 48 plates. THE LIVES OF THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS. By E. Beresford Chancellor. With 45 plates. THE SCHOOL OF MADRID. By A. de Beruete y Moret. With 48 plates. WILLIAM BLAKE. By Basil de Selincourt. With 40 plates. GIOTTO. By Basil de Selincourt. With 44 plates. FRENCH PAINTING IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By L. Dimier. With 50 plates. THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA. By Edmund G. Gardner. With 50 plates. SIX GREEK SCULPTORS. (Myron, Pheidias, Polykleitos, Skopas, Praxiteles, and Lysippos.) By Ernest Gardner. With 81 plates. TITIAN. By Georg Gronau. With 54 plates. CONSTABLE. By M. Sturge Henderson. With 48 plates. PISANELLO. By G. F. Hill. With 50 plates. MICHAEL ANGELO. By Sir Charles Holroyd. With 52 plates. MEDIÆVAL ART. By W. R. Lethaby. With 66 plates and 120 drawings in the text. THE SCOTTISH SCHOOL OF PAINTING. By William D. McKay, R.S.A. With 46 plates. CHRISTOPHER WREN. By Lena Milman. With upwards of 60 plates. CORREGGIO. By T. Sturge Moore. With 55 plates.