It told enough of the blessed home-tale.
Lady Caroline laughed a sharp laugh.

"Eh, my dear, I see how things are.

You don't regret having married John Halifax, the tanner ?" "Regret!" "Nay, be not impetuous.

I always said he was a noble fellow--so does the earl now.

And William--you can't think what a hero your husband is to William." "Lord Ravenel ?" "Ay, my little brother that was--growing a young man now--a frightful bigot, wanting to make our house as Catholic as when two or three of us lost our heads for King James.