But that needn't keep the rest of you from going on to-day as you planned." "What an awful thing!" exclaimed Aunt Lil.

"I will stay too, if the girls don't mind.

Poor fellow! It may be some comfort to him to feel that he has friends on the spot, standing by him.

I've got thousands of engagements--we all have--but I shall telegraph to everybody.

What about you, Lord Bob ?" "I'll stand by, with you, Lady Mountstuart," said he, his nice though not very clever face more anxious-looking than I had ever seen it, his blue, wide-apart eyes watching me rather wistfully.