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But it did not land,

and dancing with the woman he loved--with the beautiful Lady Luce, whom

he had kissed on the terrace

"And what do you think of his lordship?" Mrs Hawksley asked, as if the

Right Honorable the Earl of Angleford were her special property "I

wasn't far wrong, was I, Miss Lorton, when I said that he would be the

finest, handso what she answered "That is----" She

put her hand to her lips Even now she had not realized that her Drake

and the earl were one and the same man "Oh, yes; he is handsome,

and----" she finished, as the old lady eyed her half indignantly "But

I--I have leford called

before he succeeded to the title?"

Mrs Hawksley looked at her rather curiously

"Why, Lord Selbie, of course," she said "He ought, being one of the

Anglefords, to have been Lord Vernon, Drake Vernon; but his father was a

faovernor of New South Wales and they made him a

viscount Do you understand?" she asked, proud of her own knowledge of

these intricacies of the earl's names and titles