Dove has put in no appearance, and unless I can pay three and tenpence-halfpenny on account to the baker he refuses positive to allow me sufficient bread to see Sunday through." When Mrs.Dove made this request Primrose's face became intensely pale.

She was silent for half a minute, then she said-- "I will lend you the money this time, Mrs.Dove, but please don't ask me again; you know that at this present moment you owe me very nearly two pounds." "Thank you, my dear Miss Mainwaring," answered Mrs.Dove, in a very suave voice, as she hastily pocketed poor Primrose's few shillings.
"You are always obliging, and this, with the other trifle due, shall be returned the moment Dove comes in--Dove is on a very good piece of work just at present, and the money is as safe as safe.

Oh, Miss Jasmine, I have brought you this week's copy of _The Downfall_--the serial in it is really of the most powerful order.

I have shed a deluge of tears over it.

The lowest person of rank in the pages is a marquess; but the story mostly deals in ducal families.