Grateful astonishment! 'Of course I am ready to meet you, sir--I always have been.

I will get my solicitor to put what you proposed in your letter of this morning into shape immediately, and will leave it signed at your door to-night.

I trust this trouble is now over.

It has been a great grief to me.' And now there was the man bringing the letter.

One worry done with! How many more the same patient hand might have dealt with, if its exacting owner hadn't thrown up her work--so preposterously! The Squire gave an angry sigh, slipped out of the visitor's way through a shrubbery, and returned to his library.