The ministerial Roby, who was really the hero of the night, took Mrs.Happerton, and our friend Mr.
Wharton took the Secretary's wife.

All that had been easy,--so easy that fate had good-naturedly arranged things which are sometimes difficult of management.

But then there came an embarrassment.

Of course it would in a usual way be right that a married man as was Mr.
Happerton should be assigned to the widow Mrs.Leslie, and that the only two "young" people,--in the usual sense of the word,--should go down to dinner together.

But Mrs.Roby was at first afraid of Mr.
Wharton, and planned it otherwise.