He is very much pleased, I am told, with marrying her to Richard, and she herself seems very much in love with him." All this time he had stood very still and looked at her, but his face had changed slowly as she spoke.

I knew then that what she had said had not pleased him.

She went on in her babbling, soft voice: "His sister Sophie isn't pleased, of course, so there is nothing said about it here.

It _is_ rather hard for her, for the place belongs to Richard, and besides, Richard has been very generous to her always.

And then to see him marry just such a sort of person--you know--so young--" "Yes--so young," said Mr.Langenau, between his teeth, "and of such charming innocence." "Oh, as to that," said Mary Leighton, piqued beyond prudence, "we all have our own views as to that." The largess due the bearer of good news was not by right the meed of Mary Leighton.