Major Grantly is to be the bail,--he and Mr.Robarts.That, I think, was very nice of him." It was undoubtedly the fact that Miss Anne Prettyman had received an accession of pleasurable emotion when she learned that Mr.Crawley had not been sent away scathless, but had been condemned, as it were, to a public trial at the assizes.

And yet she would have done anything in her power to save Grace Crawley, or even to save her father.

And it must be explained that Miss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the course of law in the country in which she lived.

"Committed him," said Miss Prettyman, correcting her sister with scorn.

"They have not convicted him.