He'll hear about Colonel de B----, and Sir C.D----, and Lord E.F----, and there are ever so many chances against me.

But I've made up my mind to try it.

It's taking the long odds.

I can hardly expect to win, but if I do pull it off I'm made for ever!" A daughter can hardly say all that to her mother.

Even Arabella Trefoil could not say it to her mother,--or, at any rate, she would not.