That was satisfactory, for he was always a little impatient when the talk was of lovers and weddings; and just then this topic was uppermost in Ethel's mind.
"Ruth," she said, "Dora is engaged," and then in a few sentences she told the little romance Dora had lived for the past year, and its happy culmination.

"Setting money aside, I think he will make a very suitable husband.

What do you think, Ruth ?" "From what I know of Mr.Stanhope, I should doubt it.

I am sure he will put his duties before every earthly thing, and I am sure Dora will object to that.

Then I wonder if Dora is made on a pattern large enough to be the moneyed partner in matrimony.