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This being the state of human affairs, what is Eliza fairly sure to do

when she is placed between Freddy and Higgins? Will she look forward to

a lifetiins's slippers or to a lifeti hers? There can be no doubt about the answer Unless Freddy is

biologically repulsive to her, and Higgins biologically attractive to a

degree that overwhelms all her other instincts, she will, if she

marries either of them, marry Freddy

And that is just what Eliza did

Complications ensued; but they were economic, not romantic Freddy had

no money and no occupation His elady Park, had enabled her to struggle along in

Earlscourt with an air of gentility, but not to procure any serious

secondary education for her children, ive the boy a

profession A clerkship at thirty shillings a as beneath Freddy's

dignity, and extremely distasteful to him besides His prospects

consisted of a hope that if he kept up appearances so appeared vaguely to his iination as

a private secretaryship or a sinecure of soe to some lady of means who could not

resist her boy's niceness Fancy her feelings when he irl who had become declassee under extraordinary circumstances which

were now notorious!

It is true that Eliza's situation did not seeh formerly a dustman, and now fantastically disclassed,

had become extremely popular in the smartest society by a social talent

which triue Rejected