e means to go to church to-morrow? I don't like
to ask.'

'Nor I.'

'I know she does,' said Charlotte. 'She told me so.'

'I hope it will not be too much for her! Dear Amy.'

'She would say it was wrong to have our heads fuller of her than of our
bride,' said Charles.

'Poor Laura!' said Mrs. Edmonstone. 'I am glad it is all right at last.
They have both gone through a great deal.'

'And not in vain,' added Charles. 'Philip is--'

'Oh, I say not a word against him!' cried Mrs. Edmonstone. 'He is most
excellent; he will be very distinguished,--he will make her very happy.
Yes.'

'In fact,' said Charles, 'he is made to be one of the first in this
world, and to be first by being above it; and the only reason we are
almost discontented is, that we compare him with one who was too good
for this world.'

'It is not only that.'

'Ah! you did not see him at Redclyffe, or you would do more than simply
forgiving him as a Christian.'

'I am very sorry for him.'

'That is not quite enough,' said Charles, smiling, with a mischievous
air, though fully in earnest. 'Is it, Charlotte? She must take him home
to her mamma's own heart.'

'No, no, that is asking too much, Charlie,' said Mrs. Edmonstone. 'Only
one ever was--' then breaking off--'and I can never think of Philip as I
used to do.'

'I like him much better now,' said Charlotte.

'For my part,' said Charles, 'I never liked him--nay, that's too mild, I
could not abide him, I rebelled against him, heart, soul, and taste. If
it had not been for Guy, his fashion of goodness would have made me into
an extract of gall and wormwood, at the very time you admired him, and
yet a great deal of it was genuine. But it is only now that I have liked
him. Nay, I look up to him, I think him positively noble and grand, and
when I see proofs of his being entirely repentant, I perceive he is a
thorough great man. If I had not seen one greater, I should follow his
young man's example and take him for my hero model.'

'As if you wanted a hero model,' whispered Charlotte, in a tone between
caressing and impertinence.

'I've had one!' returned Charles, also aside.

'Yes,' said Mrs. Edmonstone, going on with her own thoughts, 'unless
there had been a great fund of real goodness, he would never have felt
it so deeply. Indeed, even when I best liked Philip, I never thought him
capable of such repentance as he has shown.'

'If mamma wants to like him very much,' said Charlotte, 'I