She did not know, however, the amount of the baronet's obligations;--nor, indeed, did he, or any one else.

A baronet, holding a commission in the Guards, and known to have had a fortune left him by his father, may go very far in getting into debt; and Sir Felix had made full use of all his privileges.

His life had been in every way bad.

He had become a burden on his mother so heavy,--and on his sister also,--that their life had become one of unavoidable embarrassments.

But not for a moment, had either of them ever quarrelled with him.