The last new novel lay neglected on the table.

Arthur followed Miss Haldane into the garden.
The next day he wrote home, enclosing in his letter a photograph of Miss Haldane.

Before the end of the week, Sir Theodore and Lady Barville arrived at Lord Montbarry's, and formed their own judgment of the fidelity of the portrait.

They had themselves married early in life--and, strange to say, they did not object on principle to the early marriages of other people.

The question of age being thus disposed of, the course of true love had no other obstacles to encounter.