He does not think that a name so grandly Saxon as Wharton should be changed to one so meanly Latin as Lopez." "The lady does not object to the Latinity ?" "I fancy not." "Or to the bearer of it ?" "Ah;--there I must not boast.

But in simple truth there is only the father's ill-will between us." "With plenty of money on both sides ?" asked the Duchess.

Lopez shrugged his shoulders.

A shrug at such a time may mean anything, but the Duchess took this shrug as signifying that the question was so surely settled as to admit of no difficulty.

"Then," said the Duchess, "the old gentleman may as well give way at once.