That evening there was a ball at the Palace.

Everyone was present.

"Peel and the Duke of Wellington came by looking very much put out." She was perfectly happy; Lord M.was Prime Minister once more, and he was by her side.
VIII Happiness had returned with Lord M., but it was happiness in the midst of agitation.

The domestic imbroglio continued unabated, until at last the Duke, rejected as a Minister, was called in once again in his old capacity as moral physician to the family.

Something was accomplished when, at last, he induced Sir John Conroy to resign his place about the Duchess of Kent and leave the Palace for ever; something more when he persuaded the Queen to write an affectionate letter to her mother.