I guess; and you'll always have to go round
in fine clothes."

"And that will be all?"

"No;--not all. There will be carriages and horses, and all manner
of people there who won't care much about you. If he is firm,--very
firm;--if he have that firmness which one does not often meet, even
in an American man, he will be able, after a while, to give you
a position as an English woman of rank." It is to be feared that
Wallachia Petrie had been made aware of Caroline's idea as to Mr.
Glascock's want of purpose.

"And that will be all?"

"If you have a baby, they'll let you go and see it two or three times
a day. I don't suppose you will be allowed to nurse it, because they
never do in England. You have read what the Saturday Review says. In
every other respect the Saturday Review has been the falsest of all
false periodicals, but I guess it has been pretty true in what it has
said about English women."

"I wish I knew more about it really."

"When a man has to leap through a window in the dark, Caroline, of
course he doubts whether the feather bed said to be below will be
soft enough for him."

"I shouldn't fear the leap for myself, if it wouldn't hurt him. Do
you think it possible that society can be so formed that a man should
lose caste because he doesn't marry just one of his own set?"

"It has been so all over the world, my dear. If like to like is to be
true anywhere, it should be true in marriage."

"Yes;--but with a difference. He and I are like to like. We come of
the same race, we speak the same language, we worship the same God,
we have the same ideas of culture and of pleasures. The difference is
one that is not patent to the eye or to the ear. It is a difference
of accidental incident, not of nature or of acquirement."

"I guess you would find, Caroline, that a jury of English matrons
sworn to try you fairly, would not find you to be entitled to come
among them as one of themselves."

"And how will that affect him?"

"Less powerfully than many others, because he is not impassioned. He
is, perhaps--lethargic."

"No, Wally, he is not lethargic."

"If you ask me I must speak. It would harass some men almost to
death; it will not do so with him. He would probably find his
happiness best in leaving his old country and coming among your
people."

The idea of Mr. Glascock,--the future Lord Peterborough,--leaving
England, abandoning Monkhams, deserting his duty in the House of
Lords, and going aw