her fan against the sofa.
'Oh! why do you not remember names! I love people who remember names. My
favourite, my Bath favourite. What is his name? He is to dine with me
in town. What is the name of my Bath favourite who is certainly to dine
with me in town?'

'Do you mean Captain Armine?' enquired Mrs. Montgomery Floyd. Miss
Temple turned pale. 'That is the man,' said Lady Bellair. 'Oh! such a
charming man. You shall marry him, my dear; you shall not marry Lord
Fitzwarrene.'

'But you forget he is going to be married,' said Mrs. Montgomery Floyd.

Miss Temple tried to rise, but she could not. She held down her
head. She felt the fever in her cheek. 'Is our engagement, then, so
notorious?' she thought to herself.

'Ah! yes, I forgot he was going to be married,' said Lady Bellair.
'Well, then, it must be Lord Fitzwarrene. Besides, Captain Armine is not
rich, but he has got a very fine place though, and I will go and stop
there some day. And, besides, he is over head-and-ears in debt, so they
say. However, he is going to marry a very rich woman, and so all will be
right. I like old families in decay to get round again.'

Henrietta dreaded that her father should observe her confusion; she had
recourse to every art to prevent it. 'Dear Ferdinand,' she thought to
herself, 'thy very rich wife will bring thee, I fear, but a poor dower.
Ah! would he were here!'

'Whom is Captain Armine going to marry?' enquired Mr. Temple.

'Oh! a very proper person,' said Lady Bellair. 'I forget her name. Miss
Twoshoes, or something. What is her name, my dear?'

'You mean Miss Grandison, madam?' responded Mrs. Montgomery Floyd.

'To be sure, Miss Grandison, the great heiress. The only one left of the
Grandisons. I knew her grandfather. He was my son's schoolfellow.'

'Captain Armine is a near neighbour of ours,' said Mr. Temple.

'Oh! you know him,' said Lady Bellair. 'Is not he charming?'

'Are you certain he is going to be married to Miss Grandison?' enquired
Mr. Temple.

'Oh! there is no doubt in the world,' said Mrs. Montgomery Floyd.
'Everything is quite settled. My most particular friend, Lady Julia
Harteville, is to be one of the bridesmaids. I have seen all the
presents. Both the families are at Bath at this very moment. I saw the
happy pair together every day. They are related, you know. It is an
excellent match, for the Armines have great estates, mortgaged to
the very last acre. I have heard that Sir Ratcliffe Armine