He said that the person thoroughly well deserved it, but that the next time he mightn't get off with a few bruises, and that would be awkward for Mr.Gray.So he has given him another room." "Ah, bravo!" Lady Agatha clapped her hands together.

"That's where Mary gets it.

I've seen the light of battle in her eye--haven't you ?" "Sometimes--when she has heard of cruelty and injustice." Now that Mary's schooling was over, she was to see the world under Lady Anne's auspices.

They were to go abroad soon after Christmas, to be in Rome for Easter, to dawdle about the Continent where they would and for as long as they would.

Everything was planned and mapped out.