He is something in the city now, a director they call him, and mamma thinks that the work will be of service to him.' Roger could express no hope in this direction or even look as though he approved of the directorship.

'I don't see why he should not try at any rate.' 'Dear Hetta, I only wish he were like you.' 'Girls are so different, you know.' It was not till late in the evening, long after dinner, that he made his apology in form to Lady Carbury; but he did make it, and at last it was accepted.

'I think I was rough to you, talking about Felix,' he said,--'and I beg your pardon.' 'You were energetic, that was all.' 'A gentleman should never be rough to a lady, and a man should never be rough to his own guests.

I hope you will forgive me.' She answered him by putting out her hand and smiling on him; and so the quarrel was over.
Lady Carbury understood the full extent of her triumph, and was enabled by her disposition to use it thoroughly.

Felix might now come down to Carbury, and go over from thence to Caversham, and prosecute his wooing, and the master of Carbury could make no further objection.
And Felix, if he would come, would not now be snubbed.