"I took supper at Cobhurst, where Dora Bannister waited on the table." "What do you mean ?" exclaimed Miss Panney, and then the doctor told his tale.

As the old lady listened, her spirits rose higher and higher.

What extraordinary good luck! She had never planned a match that moved with such smoothness, such celerity, such astonishing directness as this.

She did not look upon Dora's disregard of tradition and ordinary custom as an undesirable point in her character.

She liked that sort of thing.