And she's not the least little bit," Mrs.Assingham observed, "your mother-in-law.

In such a matter a shade of difference is enormous.

She's no relation to you whatever, and if she's known in high quarters but as going about with you, then--then--!" She failed, however, as from positive intensity of vision.

"Then, then what ?" he asked with perfect good-nature.
"She had better in such a case not be known at all." "But I assure you I never, just now, so much as mentioned her.

Do you suppose I asked them," said the young man, still amused, "if they didn't want to see her?
You surely don't need to be shown that Charlotte speaks for herself--that she does so above all on such an occasion as this and looking as she does to-night.