In October Colonel Lorimer had the profound pleasure of giving away his daughter, before the altar in St.George's, Hanover Square, and it may be said of him that nothing in his relations with that young lady became him better than his manner of parting with her.
So the needy Colonel's daughter became Lady Kirkbank, and in the following spring Diana Angersthorpe was married at the same St.George's to the Earl of Maulevrier.

The friends were divided by distance and by circumstance as the years rolled on; but friendship was steadily maintained; and a regular correspondence with Lady Kirkbank, whose pen was as sharp as her tongue, was one of the means by which Lady Maulevrier had kept herself thoroughly posted in all those small events, unrecorded by newspapers, which make up the secret history of society.
It was of her old friend Georgie that her ladyship thought in her present anxiety.

Lady Kirkbank had more than once suggested that Lady Maulevrier's granddaughters should vary the monotony of Fellside by a visit to her place near Doncaster, or her castle north of Aberdeen; but her ladyship had evaded these friendly suggestions, being very jealous of any strange influence upon Lesbia's life.

Now, however, there had come a time when Lesbia must have a complete change of scenery and surroundings, lest she should pine and dwindle in sullen submission to fate, or else defy the world and elope with John Hammond.
Now, therefore, Lady Maulevrier decided to accept Lady Kirkbank's hospitality.

She told her friend the whole story with perfect frankness, and her letter was immediately answered by a telegram.
'I start for Scotland to-morrow, will break my journey by staying a night at Fellside, and will take Lady Lesbia on to Kirkbank with me next day, if she can be ready to go.' 'She shall be ready,' said Lady Maulevrier.
She told Lesbia that she had accepted an invitation for her, and that she was to go to Kirkbank Castle the day after to-morrow.