SIR PETER'S NEW CLOTHES Tyson had not married in order to improve his social position; he had married because he was in love as he had never been in love before.

He would have married a barmaid, if necessary, for the same reason.

He was not long in finding out that he owed his unpopularity in a great measure to his marriage.

To the curious observer this consciousness of his mistake was conspicuous in his manner.

(It was to be hoped that his wife was not a curious observer.) And Sir Peter made matters no better by going about declaring that Mrs.Nevill Tyson was the loveliest woman in Leicestershire, when everybody knew that his wife had flatly refused to call on her.