"His last chance is to read for his degree.

Hopeless, my dear.

Quite hopeless! If it had only been something easier than that; something that rested with me--" "It does rest with you," interposed Julius.

"My dear mother!--can you believe it ?--Geoffrey's last chance is (in one word) Marriage!" "Oh, Julius! it's too good to be true!" Julius repeated his father's own words.

Lady Holchester looked twenty years younger as she listened.