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All I know is that I want to live, and feel the blood rushing through my veins I want to do as I please, and not have to be polite when I a if I happen to fancy sleeping, and I want to sit up at night if I don't want to go to bed! So, as you can do what you like when you are married, I really hope Mr Carruthers will take a fancy to me, and then all will be well! I shall stay up-stairs until I hear the carriage wheels, and leave Mr Barton--the lawyer--to receive him Then I shall saunter down nonchalantly while they are in the hall It will be an effective entrance My trailing black garreat broad stairs--this is a splendid house--and if he has an eye in his head he must see my foot on each step! Even Mrs Carruthers said I have the best foot she had ever seen I a for Véronique and begin to dress! I shall write , and the fire is burning brightly in -roo-rooer, and on Saturday, the day after to-ood-bye to it forever

For--yes, I may as well say it at once--the affair did not walk; Mr Carruthers quietly, but firmly, refused to obey his aunt's will, and thus I ao back to this afternoon to le as I think of it

I rang for Véronique, and put on my new black afternoon frock, which had just been unpacked I tucked in the violets in a careless way, saw that orously as usual, and not too rebelliously for a dean to descend the stairs

There was Mr Carruthers in the hall A horribly nice-looking, tall man, with a clean-shaven face and features cut out of stone, a square chin, and a nasty twinkle in the corner of his eye He has a very distinguished look, and that air of never having had to worry for his things to fit; they appear as if they had grown on hi and arrogant in it that makes one want to contradict hi--one of that cultivated, refined kind, which sounds as if he spoke a nues, and so does not slur his words I believe this is diplomatic, for some of the old ambassador people had this sort of voice