"I will come.

All your disappointed partners will, however, vent their wrath on me, Philippa." "I can bear it," she said, "and so can you.

Now I can let you go more willingly, seeing that I shall soon see you again." And then he went away.

After he had gone she spoke but little; once she clasped her arms round Lady Peters' neck and kissed the kindly face.
"Do not speak to me," she said, "lest I should lose the echo of his voice;" and Lady Peters watched her anxiously, as she stood with a rapt smile on her face, as of one who has heard celestial music in a dream.
* * * * * The Arleighs of Beechgrove had for many generations been one of the wealthiest as well as one of the noblest families in England.

To Norman, Lord Arleigh, who had succeeded his father at the early age of twenty, all this good gift of fame, fortune, and wealth had now fallen.