Lady Greendale is a remarkably clever woman, and her daughter is as nice a girl as I have come across for a long time, and without a scrap of nonsense about her.

I wonder that she has not become engaged by this time.

General Matthews, who, as you know, goes in a good deal for that sort of thing for the sake of his daughters, told me recently that he fancied from what he had heard that Miss Greendale's engagement was likely to be a settled thing before the season was over.

He said there were three men making the running--Lord Chilson, the eldest son of the Earl of Sommerlay; George Delamore--his father is in the Cabinet, you know, and he is member for Ponberry; and a man named Carthew, who keeps race horses, and was a neighbour of hers down in the country.

He is, I hear, a good-looking fellow, and just the sort of man a girl is likely to fancy.