" "Miss Sterling?" mused Miss Mullaly, with a sweeping glance round the table.

"Nor I!" laughed Miss Mullaly's right-hand neighbor.

" "I heard you couldn't have any company except one afternoon a week," resumed Miss Mullaly, after the laughing had ceased,"not anybody at all.

"She must be pretty bold, when it's against the rule," observed Miss Mullaly.

" "Is Miss Sterling a relative of his?" asked Miss Mullaly.

"I don't think people outside know how things go here," put in Miss Mullaly.

Miss Mullaly sprang to her feet, threw out her chest, and worked her arms up and down.

Miss Mullaly queried.

" Miss Crilly and Miss Major hurried to the floor, Miss Mullaly following.

" "I wish there was an exercise to make thin folks fatter," observed Miss Mullaly.

Miss Mullaly was doing her best, but not well enough to satisfy the instructor.

"Where are we bound for to-day?" queried Miss Mullaly in her ear.

"She hasn't told us a thing he said to her," winked Miss Mullaly.

"Well, what did you talk about?" queried Miss Mullaly coaxingly.

"He asked what I had for dinner yesterday, and I told him'" "Honest?" gasped Miss Mullaly.

"I think the new ladies wished they were coming when they heard us talking about it," said Miss Mullaly.

"The clouds are chiming in with the rest of the world," called Miss Mullaly from the sunshine-room, just as the sun was setting.

"Come here, every one of you, and see this sky!" Informality was the watchword of the day, the guests having early been given the freedom of the house, and Miss Mullaly had strayed away from the others into the windowed room.

"You missed the lovely purple tints," Miss Mullaly told them, as the remaining quartette filed back to join the rest.

"Who can they be?" whispered Miss Mullaly to her neighbor.

A short but exciting race she led him before dodging behind Miss Mullaly's chair and asking breathlessly if the mistletoe was all over the room.

Mis' Albright and Miss Mullaly and Miss Major and I, and I said, 'Come in and sit down!'

Well, I gave one scream, and looked round to make sure where I was; and Miss Mullaly she squealed out, 'How came that here?'

I told him that Miss Mullaly said you ought to get down on your knees every day of your life and thank the Lord for giving you such a good husband.

" "You can tell Miss Mullaly that is just what I do!"