And he did woo her--and won her.

For Mark himself was a handsome fellow.

At this time the vicar was about twenty-five years of age, and the future Mrs.Robarts was two or three years younger.

Nor did she come quite empty-handed to the vicarage.

It cannot be said that Fanny Monsell was an heiress, but she had been left with a provision of some few thousand pounds.