But, Duke, there is but one cure." "Time, you mean." "Yes; time; but I did not mean time." Then she smiled as she went on.

"You must not suppose that I am speaking against my own sex if I say that she will not forget Mr.Tregear till someone else has made himself agreeable to her.

We must wait till she can go out a little into society.

Then she will find out that there are others in the world besides Mr.Tregear.It so often is the case that a girl's love means her sympathy for him who has chanced to be nearest to her." The Duke as he went away thought very much of what Lady Cantrip had said to him;--particularly of those last words.

"Till some one else has made himself agreeable to her." Was he to send his girl into the world in order that she might find a lover?
There was something in the idea which was thoroughly distasteful to him.