utton-chops at home," said Nora, "and you
shall go to your club for the beef-steak."

When they reached Eccleston Square, Nora insisted on taking Hugh
Stanbury up to Lady Milborough. It was in vain that he pleaded that
he had come all the way from Dover on a very dusty day,--all the way
from Dover, including a journey in a Hansom cab to Twickenham and
back, without washing his hands and face. Nora insisted that Lady
Milborough was such a dear, good, considerate creature, that she
would understand all that, and Hugh was taken into her presence. "I
am delighted to see you, Mr. Stanbury," said the old lady, "and hope
you will think that Nora is in good keeping."

"She has been telling me how very kind you have been to her. I do not
know where she could have bestowed herself if you had not received
her."

"There, Nora;--I told you he would say so. I won't tell tales, Mr.
Stanbury; but she had all manner of wild plans which I knew you
wouldn't approve. But she is very amiable, and if she will only
submit to you as well as she does to me--"

"I don't mean to submit to him at all, Lady Milborough;--of course
not. I am going to marry for liberty."

"My dear, what you say, you say in joke; but a great many young women
of the present day do, I really believe, go up to the altar and
pronounce their marriage vows, with the simple idea that as soon as
they have done so, they are to have their own way in everything. And
then people complain that young men won't marry! Who can wonder at
it?"

"I don't think the young men think much about the obedience," said
Nora. "Some marry for money, and some for love. But I don't think
they marry to get a slave."

"What do you say, Mr. Stanbury?" asked the old lady.

"I can only assure you that I shan't marry for money," said he.

Two or three days after this Nora left her friend in Eccleston
Square, and domesticated herself for awhile with her sister. Mrs.
Trevelyan declared that such an arrangement would be comfortable
for her, and that it was very desirable now, as Nora would so soon
be beyond her reach. Then Lady Milborough was enabled to go to
Dorsetshire, which she did not do, however, till she had presented
Nora with the veil which she was to wear on the occasion of her
wedding. "Of course I cannot see it, my dear, as it is to take place
at Monkhams; but you must write and tell me the day;--and I will
think of you. And you, when you put on the veil, must think of me."
So they p