The first sunday that followed Robert Acton's return from Newport witnessed a change in the brilliant weather that had long prevailed.

The rain began to fall and the day was cold and dreary.

Mr.Wentworth and his daughters put on overshoes and went to church, and Felix Young, without overshoes, went also, holding an umbrella over Gertrude.

It is to be feared that, in the whole observance, this was the privilege he most highly valued.

The Baroness remained at home; she was in neither a cheerful nor a devotional mood.