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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

sure to you to be the attraction of the church to-day, since I could not be there.'

'My dear one, neither will it be so much But I do take a little pleasure to me. . . . . delight in my life, I suppose,' she pouted.

'Apart from mine?'

She looked at him with perplexed eyes. 'I know you are vexed with me, Dick, and it is because the first Sunday I have curls and a hat and feather since I have been here happens to be the very day you are away and won't be with me. Yes, say it is, for that is it! And you think that all this week I ought to have remembered you wouldn't be here, and not have cared to be better dressed than usual. Yes, you do, Dick, and it is rather unkind!'

'No, no,' said Dick earnestly and simply, 'I didn't think so badly of you as that. I only thought that, if you had been going away, I shouldn't have adopted new attrac-

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