"It's an insult to Grace," he broke out, warmly, "to hear what she has to say!" Lady Janet nodded her head in high approval.

"I think so, too," said her ladyship, crossing her handsome old hands resolutely on her lap.
Julian applied himself to answering Horace first.
"Pardon me," he said.

"I have no intention of presuming to reflect on Miss Roseberry, or of bringing her into the matter at all .-- The consul's letter," he went on, speaking to his aunt, "mentions, if you remember, that the medical authorities of Mannheim were divided in opinion on their patient's case.

Some of them--the physician-in-chief being among the number--believe that the recovery of her mind has not accompanied the recovery of her body." "In other words," Lady Janet remarked, "a madwoman is in my house, and I am expected to receive her!" "Don't let us exaggerate," said Julian, gently.

"It can serve no good interest, in this serious matter, to exaggerate anything.