"All right." -- ---------- NOTE .-- There are certain readers who feel a disposition to doubt Facts, when they meet with them in a work of fiction.

Persons of this way of thinking may be profitably referred to the book which first suggested to me the idea of writing the present Novel.

The book is the Report of the Royal Commissioners on The Laws of Marriage.

Published by the Queen's Printers For her Majesty's Stationery Office.

(London, 1868.) What Sir Patrick says professionally of Scotch Marriages in this chapter is taken from this high authority.