There does not happen to be any one else whom you feel it would be your duty to marry ?" "I can't think of any one at the moment.

Charles, you never _could_ have believed I would marry _him_, after all ?" "Indeed, I did believe it.

Don't I know the stubbornness of your heart?
You see, you are but young, and I make excuses for you; but, after you have been the object of my special and judicious training for a few years, I quite hope your judgment may improve considerably." "I trust it will, as I see from your remarks--it will certainly be all we shall have to guide us both." * * * * * POSTSCRIPT .-- Lady Mary would not allow even Providence any of the credit of Charles's engagement; she claimed the whole herself.

She called Evelyn to witness that from the first it had been her work entirely.

She only allowed Charles himself a very secondary part in the great event, to which she was apt to point in later years as the crowning work of a life devoted--under Church direction--to the temporal and spiritual welfare of her fellow-creatures; and Charles avers that a mention of it in the long list of her virtues will some day adorn the tombstone which she has long since ordered to be in readiness.
Molly was disconsolate for many days, but work, that panacea of grief, came to the rescue, and it was not long before she was secretly and busily engaged on a large kettle-holder, with kettle and motto entwined, for Charles's exclusive use, without which she had been led to understand his establishment would be incomplete.