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when she slipped and, to save herself, flung her arms around Evie. In doing so, she knocked off Evie's wig, and there he stood before her, guilt all over his blushing face. He waited for the reproach- ful words to pour from her lips, the look of scorn to spread over her face, but nothing of the sort occurred, for, after a moment's pause, during which she eyed Evie from the top of his wig-less, boyish head, to the tips of his little high-heeled shoes, she suddenly burst out into peals of laughter. She suddenly understood why he had seemed to be so dis- posed to avoiding her when she went into his room, and somehow the funny side of it appealed to her. She picked up Evie's wig, took him by the hand and drew him down to sit beside her on a couch. He did not seem to notice that she was still holding his hand, or that she was smiling at him in a far from unfriendly way. Then she softly asked him to tell her why he was posing as a girl.

Evie seemed now to sense that she was not con- demning him out of hand for posing as a girl, and he forthwith told her the whole of the story. She didn't interrupt him at all, but, when he had finish- ed, she patted his hand and said quite simply that it was necessary to keep the secret from Aunt Amy at all costs. Evie could hardly believe his ears. He turned and looked at the smiling Mary and suddenly he took her in his arms and kissed her passionately on her mouth, and, to his joy, she equally passionate- ly returned his kiss. The feeling of affinity she had felt for Evie had turned in that moment to love, and, had anyone come into the room at that moment, they must have been surprised to see two apparently pretty girls, though one with a boyishly cropped head, held close in each others arms, kissing and caressing as two passionate lovers. But then, of course, such a visitor would not have been aware of the fact that that was just what they were then two real lovers, who had found each other in spite of the fact that the real boy was hidden under a real- istically feminine exterior. Eventually they sat up