At each turn in his walk, especially at the parquet of the lighted dining room, he halted and said to himself, "Yes, this I must decide and put a stop to; I must express my view of it and my decision.

" And he turned back again.

" But express what--what decision?" he said to himself in the drawing room, and he found no reply.

" But after all," he asked himself before turning into the boudoir, "what has occurred? Nothing.