Wrayth has two long galleries and a chapel of Henry the Seventh's time, and numbers of staircases in unexpected places, and then a fine suite of state rooms, built on by Adam, and then the most awful Early-Victorian imitation Gothic wing and porch which one of those dreadful people, who spoilt such numbers of places, added in 1850." "It sounds wonderful," said the financier.
"Lots of it is very shabby, of course, because Tristram's father was always very hard up; and nothing much had been done either in the grandfather's time--except the horrible wing.

But with enough money to get it right again, I cannot imagine anything more lovely than it could be." "It will be a great amusement to them in the coming year to do it all, then.

Zara has the most beautiful taste, Lady Ethelrida.

When you know her better I think you will like my niece." "But I do now," she exclaimed.

"Only I do wish she did not look so sad.
May I ask it because of our bargain?
"-- and she paused with gentle timidity--"Will you tell me ?--do you know of any special reason to-day to make her unhappy?
I saw her face at dinner to-night, and all the while she talked there was an anxious, haunted look in her eyes." Francis Markrute frowned for a moment; he had been too absorbed in his own interests to have taken in anything special about his niece.