There! Go to Salome! Go to Salome! I must be off to the House," said the conscientious M.P.rising, and putting an end to the interview.
It was subsequently arranged that the marriage should be celebrated at Castle Lone on that day three weeks.
Two weeks out of the three, Sir Lemuel Levison remained in town to give his daughter and her chaperon an opportunity of getting up as good a trousseau as could be prepared in so short a time.

But jewellers, milliners, and dressmakers may be hurried as well as lawyers, when they are well paid to make haste.

And so, in two weeks, the banker's heiress, the future Marchioness of Arondelle and Duchess of Hereward, had a trousseau as magnificent and splendid as if it had been in preparation for two years.

When it was all carefully packed and sent down to Lone, Sir Lemuel Levison and his household prepared to follow.
On the day before their departure a very curious thing happened.
Sir Lemuel was waiting in his library, when a footman entered and laid a card before him.

It was not a visiting card, but a business card.