It so chanced that I once saw that Miss Vigo in some trouble.

I happened to meet her in company with a man who was,--who was tipsy, in fact, and I had to relieve her." "Dear me,--how disagreeable!" "It's a long time ago, and there can't be any harm in mentioning it now.

It was the man she was going to marry, and whom she did marry." "What;--the Mr.Berdmore ?" "Yes; he was often in that way.

And there was a look about Mrs.
Askerton just now so like the look of that Miss Vigo then, that I cannot get rid of the idea." "They can't be the same, as she was certainly a Miss Oliphant.

And you hear, too, what she says." "Yes;--I heard what she said.