If the Duke of Clarence does not take any step before that time, I must find some pretext to reconcile Madame St.
Laurent to my going to England for a short time.

When once there, it will be easy for me to consult with my friends as to the proper steps to be taken.

Should the Duke of Clarence do nothing before that time as to marrying it will become my duty, no doubt, to take some measures upon the subject myself." Two names, the Duke said, had been mentioned in this connection--those of the Princess of Baden and the Princess of Saxe-Coburg.

The latter, he thought, would perhaps be the better of the two, from the circumstance of Prince Leopold being so popular with the nation; but before any other steps were taken, he hoped and expected to see justice done to Madame St.Laurent.

"She is," he explained, "of very good family, and has never been an actress, and I am the first and only person who ever lived with her.