"Your ladyship never told me you had a nephew." Lady Janet laughed.

"I must have had it on the tip of my tongue to tell you, over and over again," she said.

"But we have had so many things to talk about--and, to own the truth, my nephew is not one of my favorite subjects of conversation.

I don't mean that I dislike him; I detest his principles, my dear, that's all.

However, you shall form your own opinion of him; he is coming to see me to-day.