This head was surrounded by the frills of a freshly laundered night-cap, and the smooth white coverlid was drawn up close under its chin.

" Evadne looked again at the exquisitely laundered dresses.

Over this table-top Mrs. Kelcey had laidwithout thought, it must be admitted, of any intermediary padding such as certain mistaken hostesses consider essentialthree freshly and painstakingly laundered tablecloths, her own, Mrs. Murdison's, and Mrs. Lukens's best, cunningly united by stitches hardly discoverable except by a too-searching eye.