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"Who is he?"

"Oh, Mr Jayman I met in the summer I promised to let him know the next tiratification

These two had really a great deal in common besides their faith It is true that Mrs Stapleton was forty, and her friend but thirty-one; but the former did all that was possible to compensate for this by adroit toilette tactics Both, too, were accusto various emblems; they did their hair in the same way; they cultivated the sa estive of intuitive kittens Both alike had a passion for proselytisan There was a deal more in Mrs Stapleton besides the kittenish qualities She was perfectly capable of delivering a speech in public; she had written soher periodicals; and she had a will-power beyond the ordinary At the point where Lady Laura began to deprecate and soothe, Mrs Stapleton began to clear decks for action, so to speak, to be incisive, to be fervent, even to be rather eloquent She kept "dear Tom," the Colonel, not crushed or beaten, for that was beyond the power of ram: he allowed her even to entertain her prophetical friends at his expense, now and then; and, even when a men, refrained from too bitter speech It was said by the Colonel's friends that Mrs Colonel had a tongue of her own

Certainly, she ruled her house well and did her duty; and it was only because of her husband's absence in Scotland that during this ti herself the refresh the Illuminated

At about six o'clock Lady Laura announced her intention of retiring for her evening -room that she had fitted up for this purpose with all the broad suggestiveness that ht: decked with ornaions, and provided with a faldstool and an exceedingly easy chair It was here that she was accustomed to spend an hour before dinner, with closed eyes, e to a due appreciation of that Nothingness that was All, froo, dearest; it is ti at the bell below made her pause

"Do you think that can be Mr Vincent?" she said, pleasantly apprehensive "It's not the right day, but one never knows"