to him. I gave it to him," cried the young woman, "and much good
may it do him. I don't think my Lord Kew will preach to me again for
some time."

"I don't think he will indeed," said Lady Kew, in a hard dry voice. "You
don't know what you may have done. Will you be pleased to ring the bell
and order my carriage? I congratulate you on having performed a most
charming morning's work."

Ethel made her grandmother a very stately curtsey. I pity Lady Julia's
condition when her mother reached home.

All who know Lord Kew may be pretty sure that in that unlucky interview
with Ethel, to which the young lady has alluded, he just said no single
word to her that was not kind, and just, and gentle. Considering the
relation between them, he thought himself justified in remonstrating
with her as to the conduct which she chose to pursue, and in warning
her against acquaintances of whom his own experience had taught him the
dangerous character. He knew Madame d'Ivry and her friends so well that
he would not have his wife-elect a member of their circle. He could not
tell Ethel what he knew of those women and their history. She chose not
to understand his hints--did not, very likely, comprehend them. She was
quite young, and the stories of such lives as theirs had never been told
before her. She was indignant at the surveillance which Lord Kew exerted
over her, and the authority which he began to assume. At another moment
and in a better frame of mind she would have been thankful for his
care, and very soon and ever after she did justice to his many admirable
qualities--his frankness, honesty, and sweet temper. Only her high
spirit was in perpetual revolt at this time against the bondage in
which her family strove to keep her. The very worldly advantages of the
position which they offered her served but to chafe her the more. Had
her proposed husband been a young prince with a crown to lay at her
feet, she had been yet more indignant very likely, and more rebellious.
Had Kew's younger brother been her suitor, or Kew in his place, she had
been not unwilling to follow her parents' wishes. Hence the revolt in
which she was engaged--the wayward freaks and outbreaks her haughty
temper indulged in. No doubt she saw the justice of Lord Kew's reproofs.
That self-consciousness was not likely to add to her good-humour. No
doubt she was sorry for having shown Lord Kew the letter the moment
after she had done that act, of which the poor young lad