I must say this to you, Norman--that, if I had chosen from all the world, I could not have chosen a son whom I should care for more than for you, and that, if I had a son of my own, I should have wished him to be like you.

And now we will talk about our future--I am so proud to have two children to arrange for instead of one--our future, that is to have no clouds.

In the first place, what must we do with this good foster-mother of yours, Madaline, whose great love for you has led to all this complication ?" "I know what I should like to do," said Lady Arleigh, gently.
"Then consider it done," put in her husband.
"I should like her to live with me always," said Lady Arleigh any capacity--as housekeeper, or whatever she would like.

She has had so little happiness in her life, and she would find her happiness now in mine.

When her unfortunate husband is free again, she can do as she likes--either go abroad with him, or we can find them a cottage and keep them near us." So it was arranged; and there were few happier women than Margaret Dornham when she heard the news.
"I thought," she sobbed, in a broken voice, "that I should never be forgiven; and now I find that I am to be always near to the child for whose love I would have sacrificed the world." Lord Mountdean insisted on the fullest publicity being given to Madaline's abduction.
"There is one thing," he said, "I cannot understand--and that is how you came to misunderstand each other.