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"It is the one hope left to e is a very serious thing, uncle Suppose I were not to marry at all! So than I am"

"You are bound to marry," said the Earl solemnly "And you are specially bound by every duty to God and raceful to the position which you are called upon to fill"

"At any rate I will not do that," said Fred Neville proudly From this the Earl took some comfort, and then the intervieas over

On the day appointed by himself Fred left the Manor, and hisday But after he was gone, on that same afternoon, Jack Neville asked Sophie Mellerby to be his wife She refused him,--with all the courtesy she kne to use, but also with all the certainty And as soon as he had left the house she told Lady Scroope what had happened