"About Maurice and this girl! This new girl! There," contemptuously, "have been so many of them!" "You mean Miss Bolton," says Margaret, in her quiet way.

"Do you seriously mean," addressing Lady Rylton, "that you desire this marriage ?" _ "Desire_ it?
No.

It is a necessity!" says Lady Rylton.

"Who could desire a daughter-in-law of no lineage, and with the most objectionable tastes?
But she has money! That throws a cloak over all defects." "I don't think that poor child has so many defects as you fancy," says Miss Knollys.

"But for all that I should not regard her as a suitable wife for Maurice." Mrs.Bethune leans back in her chair and laughs.
"A suitable wife for Maurice!" repeats she.