"You paid your astrologer handsomely, I presume, Sir Jasper ?" "I gave him nothing.

He would take nothing--not even a cup of water.
Of his own free will he cast the horoscope, and, without reward of any kind, went his way when he had done." "What did you say the name was ?" "Achmet the Astrologer." "Melodramatic again! And now, Sir Jasper, what awful fate betides our boy ?" "Ask me not! You do not believe.

What the astrologer foretold I shall tell no one." "The carriage waits, my lady," a servant said, entering.

"Lady Helen bade me remind you, my lady, it is time to start for church." Lady Kingsland hastily glanced at her watch.
"Why, so it is! I had nearly forgotten.

Come, Sir Jasper, and forget your fears on this happy day." She led him from the room.