Leave me alone and I 'll tell her what I think of you." As to Christina Light's marriage, Madame Grandoni could make no definite statement.

The young girl, of late, had made her several flying visits, in the intervals of the usual pre-matrimonial shopping and dress-fitting; she had spoken of the event with a toss of her head, as a matter which, with a wise old friend who viewed things in their essence, she need not pretend to treat as a solemnity.

It was for Prince Casamassima to do that.

"It is what they call a marriage of reason," she once said.

"That means, you know, a marriage of madness!" "What have you said in the way of advice ?" Rowland asked.
"Very little, but that little has favored the prince.