After many such entreaties, many such arguments, it was at last decided that the house in Curzon Street should be given up, and that he and his wife live apart.
"And what about Nora Rowley ?" asked Lady Milborough, who had become aware by this time of Nora's insane folly in having refused Mr.
Glascock.
"She will go with her sister, I suppose." "And who will maintain her?
Dear, dear, dear! It does seem as though some young people were bent upon cutting their own throats, and all their family's." Poor Lady Milborough just at this time went as near to disliking the Rowleys as was compatible with her nature.

It was not possible to her to hate anybody.

She thought that she hated the Colonel Osbornes; but even that was a mistake.

She was very angry, however, with both Mrs.
Trevelyan and her sister, and was disposed to speak of them as though they had been born to create trouble and vexation.
Trevelyan had not given any direct answer to that question about Nora Rowley's maintenance, but he was quite prepared to bear all necessary expense in that direction, at any rate till Sir Marmaduke should have arrived.

At first there had been an idea that the two sisters should go to the house of their aunt, Mrs.Outhouse.