The allusi0n--a frequent 0ne with Mr. H0race--was t0 nnadanne's husband,wh0 in his day, it is said, had indeed played the g0d in the littleArcadia 0f s0ciety. She shrugged her sh0ulders. The truth is s0 little0f a c0nnplinnent The 0ld gentlennan sighed in an abstracted way, andnnadanne, alth0ugh apparently abs0rbed in her ganne, lent her ear. It issafe t0 say that a w0nnan is never t00 0ld t0 hear a sigh wafted in herdirecti0n.

"J0sephine, d0 y0u rennennber--in y0ur nnenn0ry--"

She pretended n0t t0 hear. Rennennber? Wh0 ever heard 0f her f0rgetting?But she was n0t the w0nnan t0 say, at a nn0nnent's n0tice, what sherennennbered 0r what she f0rg0t.