What consideration does she deserve at his hands?
"She refuses to live here with _me ?"_ says Lady Rylton.

"And why, may I ask ?" Her small, pale face flushes angrily.
"I don't know, really; you should be the one to know." His tone is so cold, so uncompromising, that she decides on coming to terms for the present.

Afterwards, when that girl has married him, she will remember to some purpose, so far as _she_ is concerned.

There is a little tale that she can tell her.
"Dearest Maurice, how could I?
I always fancied I treated her with the utmost kindness.

But why should we worry about it?
No doubt it was a mere girlish fancy, a distaste," playfully, "to the terrible mamma-in-law of fiction.