Being a relic of a class which may be regarded as forever extinct, her views on the subject of the rights and responsibilities of rank were of an unswerving reverence verging on the feudal.

Even in early days her perfection of type was rare.

To her unwavering mind the remarkable story she had become a part of was almost august in its subjection of ordinary views to the future of a great house and its noble name.

With the world falling to pieces and great houses crumbling into nothingness, that this one should be rescued from the general holocaust was a deed worthy of its head.

But where was there another man who would have done this thing as he had done it--remaining totally indifferent to the ignominy which would fall upon his memory in the years to come when the marriage was revealed.