next Saturday?” he said, as they returned to the town. She did not answer.

“Come to the Empire with me — you and Gertie,” he said.

“I should look well, going with a married man,” she said.

“I'm no less of a man for being married, am I?” he said.

“Oh, it's a different matter altogether with a married man,” she said, in a ready-made speech that showed her chagrin.

“How's that?” he asked.

But she would not enlighten him. Yet she promised, without promising, to be at the meeting-place next Saturday evening.

So he left her. He did not know her name. He caught a train and went home.