dy.
The aristocracy all hang together, whatever Selina and Ada may say.
Money don't buy everything, as the governor thinks. But if you're once
in with 'em you're in."

* * * * *

Hugh went back to his room and locked himself in. He was a delicate man,
highly strung, and he had not slept the night before. He collapsed into
a chair and remained a long time, his head in his hands.

It was too horrible, this woman coming back upon him suddenly, like the
ghost of some one whom he had murdered. His momentary infatuation had
been clean forgotten in his overwhelming love for Rachel. His intrigue
with Lady Newhaven seemed so long ago that it had been relegated to the
same mental shelf in his mind as the nibbling of a certain forbidden
ginger-bread when he was home for his first holidays. He could not be
held responsible for either offence after this immense interval of time.
It was not he who had committed them, but that other embryo self, that
envelope of flesh and sense which he was beginning to abhor, through
which he had passed before he reached himself, Hugh, the real man--the
man who loved Rachel, and whom Rachel loved.

He had not flinched when he came unexpectedly on Lady Newhaven. At the
sight of her a sudden passion of anger shot up and enveloped him as in
one flame from head to foot. His love for Rachel was a weapon, and he
used it. He did not greatly care about his own good name, but the good
name of the man whom Rachel loved was a thing to fight for. It was for
her sake, not Lady Newhaven's, that he had concocted the story of the
mistaken rooms. He should not have had the presence of mind if Rachel
had not been concerned.

He had not finished with Lady Newhaven. He should have trouble yet with
her, hideous scenes, in which the corpse of his dead lust would be
dragged up, a thing to shudder at, out of its nettly grave.

He could bear it. He must bear it. Nothing would induce him to marry
Lady Newhaven, as she evidently expected. He set his teeth. "She will
know the day after to-morrow," he said to himself, "when she sees my
engagement to Rachel in the papers. Then she will get at me somehow, and
make my life a hell to me, while she can. And she will try and come
between me and Rachel. I deserve it. I deserve anything I get. But
Rachel knows, and will stick to me. I will go down to her to-morrow. I
can't go on without seeing her. And she won't mind, as the engagement
will be given