What was the use of exerting oneself in any way--asked the Hon.

L.F.T.

Medwin-Burton--when a man had only an income of four or five thousand in prospect, fruit of a wretchedly encumbered estate which every year depreciated?
Having left the University without a degree--his only notable performance a very amusing speech at the Union, proposing the abolition of the House of Lords--he allied himself with young Sir Evan Hungerford in a journalistic enterprise, and for a year or two the bi-monthly _Skylark_ supplied matter for public mirth, not without occasional scandal.

Then came his succession to the title, and Viscount Honeybourne, as the papers made known, presently set forth on travel which was to cover all British territory.

He came back with an American wife, an incalculable fortune, and much knowledge of Greater Britain; moreover he had gained a serious spirit, and henceforth devoted himself to Colonial affairs.
His young wife--she was seventeen at the time of her marriage--straightway took a conspicuous place in English Society, her note being intellectual and social earnestness.
The play was to begin at three o'clock.