She refused him again and again, because she thought it wrong to run a great risk, but I knew she would never marry any one else.

How little Lady Baldock understood her.

Fancy your meeting Lady Baldock at Oswald's house!" "Fancy Augusta Boreham turning nun!" "How exquisitely grotesque it must have been when she made her complaint to you." "I pitied her with all my heart." "Of course you did,--because you are so soft.

And now, Phineas, we will put it off no longer.

Tell me all that you have to tell me about him.".