"Don't bind your fagot too conspicuously," Mrs.Finn had said to her.

Then the Duchess had fallen to a seat almost exhausted by labour, mingled with regrets, and by the doubts which from time to time pervaded even her audacious spirit.

"I'm not a god," she said, "or a Pitt, or an Italian with a long name beginning with M., that I should be able to do these things without ever making a mistake.

And yet they must be done.

And as for him,--he does not help me in the least.