Well, sir, let us hear what you have made of it." Wogan dictated a most beautiful letter, in which a mother's claims for obedience were strongly set out--as a justification, one must suppose, for a daughter's disobedience.

But Clementina was betrothed to his Majesty King James, and that engagement must be ever the highest consideration with her, on pain of forfeiting her honour.

It was altogether a noble and stately letter, written in formal, irreproachable phrases which no daughter in the world would ever have written to a mother.

Clementina laughed over it, but said that it would serve.

Wogan looked at his watch again.