I hope you will permit me to say this, with all due deference to the fact that she's your daughter.

But I consider her conduct in this matter has been very unfriendly." Again the Baronet was silent, and his companion saw that he was reflecting deeply.

"How do you know that the scandal was started by her ?" he asked presently, in a low, rather strained voice.
"Young Paterson told me so.

It appears that when she was staying with them over at Tullyallan she told his mother all sorts of absurd stories.
And Mrs.Paterson who, as you know, is a terrible gossip--told the Reads of Logie and the Redcastles, and in a few days these fictions, with all sorts of embroidery, were spread half over Scotland.

Why, my friend Lindsay, the member for Berwick, heard some whispers the other day in the Carlton Club! So, in consequence of that, Sir Henry, I'm resolved, much against my will and inclination, I assure you, to end my friendship with your wife." "All this pains me more than I can tell you," declared the old man.