"Oh, me!" she sighed, feeling the tear come with a sting from checked laughter.

"But there are marriages, aunty, that don't go on, though Protestant clergymen officiated.

Leave them unnoticed, I have really nothing to tell." "You have not heard anything of Lady Eglett ?" "Lady Charlotte Eglett?
No syllable.

Or wait--my lord's secretary was with her at Olmer; approved by her, I have to suppose." "There, my dear, I say again I do dread that woman, if she can make a man like Lord Ormont afraid of her.

And no doubt she is of our old aristocracy.