What time did you come home last night, and how is Lady Louise ?" "Lady Louise is very well.

My good mother"-- half laughing--"are you very anxious for a daughter-in-law at Kingsland to quarrel with ?" "I shall not quarrel with Lady Louise." "Then, willy-nilly, it must be Lord Carteret's daughter, and no other ?" "Everard," his mother said, earnestly, "you know I have set my heart on seeing Lady Louise your wife; and she loves you, I know.

And you, my darling Everard--you will not disappoint me ?" "I should be an ungrateful wretch if I did! Rest easy, _ma mere_--Lady Louise shall become Lady Kingsland, or the fault shall not be mine.

I believed I should have asked the momentous little question last night but for that interloper, George Grosvenor!" "Ah! jealous, of course.

He is always _de trop_, that great, stupid George," my lady said.