By a fortunate coincidence, Lady Janet's ball takes place in a fortnight.

I see my way.
"Helped by the kindness of my friend, I have arranged to have a cabin kept in reserve, on payment of a small deposit.

If the ball ends (as I believe it will) in new mortifications for Mercy--do what they may, I defy them to mortify _me_--I have only to say the word by telegraph, and we shall catch the ship at Plymouth.
"I know the effect it will have when I break the news to her, but I am prepared with my remedy.

The pages of my diary, written in past years, will show plainly enough that it is not _she_ who is driving me away from England.

She will see the longing in me for other work and other scenes expressing itself over and over again long before the time when we first met." FIFTH EXTRACT.
"Mercy's ball dress--a present from kind Lady Janet--is finished.