And in sending it Lady Mary Quin entertained no slightest doubt as to the duty of the present Earl of Scroope.

According to her thinking it could not be the duty of an Earl of Scroope in any circumstances to marry a Kate O'Hara.

There are women, who in regard to such troubles as now existed at Ardkill cottage, always think that the woman should be punished as the sinner and that the man should be assisted to escape.

The hardness of heart of such women,--who in all other views of life are perhaps tender and soft-natured,--is one of the marvels of our social system.

It is as though a certain line were drawn to include all women,--a line, but, alas, little more than a line,--by overstepping which, or rather by being known to have overstepped it, a woman ceases to be a woman in the estimation of her own sex.