"Mock-marriage ?" she echoed.

"Marriage?
La!" And again she vented her unpleasant laugh.

"Did she insist on that, the prude?
Y' amaze me!" "Surely, my love, you do not apprehend.

Had Lord Rotherby's parson not been detected and unmasked by Mr.Caryll, here--" "Would you ha' me believe she did not know the fellow was no parson ?" "Oh!" cried Hortensia.

"Your ladyship has a very wicked soul.