His father and mother naturally expect to see him at home again.' Miss Haldane met this difficulty with a suggestion, which could only have proceeded from a judgment already disturbed by the ravages of the tender passion.

'Why can't his father and mother go and see him at Lord Montbarry's ?' she asked.

'Sir Theodore's place is only thirty miles away, and Lady Barville is Lord Montbarry's sister.

They needn't stand on ceremony.' 'They may have other engagements,' Mrs.Carbury remarked.
'My dear aunt, we don't know that! Suppose you ask Arthur ?' 'Suppose you ask him ?' Miss Haldane bent her head again over her work.

Suddenly as it was done, her aunt had seen her face--and her face betrayed her.
When Arthur came the next day, Mrs.Carbury said a word to him in private, while her niece was in the garden.