It will be so satisfactory to have her as the head of your establishment--probably Mr.Howland will give her Windrift.

And her cousin--that Mr.Fanning she married--is connected with all the best families in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

They are at the top of our aristocracy." This recital was not to inform, but to inspire--to remind him what a wise and brilliant move he had made in the game of life.

And it had precisely the effect she intended.

Had she not herself created and fostered in him the nature that would welcome such stuff as a bat welcomes night?
"I'm going back to Windrift to-morrow," he said, still sullen, but with the note of the quarrel-seeker gone from his voice.
"When do you wish me to write to her ?" "Whenever you like," he said.