ice-bucket, many rows of books which on close
examination will prove to be painted wood (the
stage Lotharios not being really reading men).
The lamps shed a diffused light, and one of them
is slightly odd in construction, because it is for
knocking over presently in order to let the lady
escape unobserved. Through this room moves
occasionally the man's Man, sleek, impertur-
bable, announcing the lady, the lady's husband,
the woman friend who is to save them; he says
little, but is responsible for all the arrange-
ments going right; before the curtain rises
he may be conceived trying the lamp and
making sure that the lady will not stick in the
door.

That is how it ought to be, that is how Amy
has seen it several times in the past week; and
now that we come to the grapple we wish we could
give you what you want, for you do want it, you
have been used to it, and you will feel that you
an looking at a strange middle act without it.
But Steve cannot have such a room this: he
has only two hundred and fifty pounds a year,
including the legacy from his aunt. Besides,

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