I should hardly be surprised if it really saved her life even now, and rendered a legitimate union necessary between them.

In that case my father can be informed of the whole proceeding, and in the face of such wonderful success cannot disapprove.

Meanwhile poor Charles has not lost the possibility of taking unworthy me to fill her place should she--.

But I cannot contemplate that alternative unmoved, and will not write it.

Charles left for the South of Europe immediately after the ceremony.