her Ladyship for money. "I don't think I can do
it," said Lord George. Mr. Knox shrugged his shoulders, and again said
that he saw no objection. "I should be very slow in advertising, you
know," said Mr. Knox.

"But I don't think that I have a right to be in a man's house without
his leave. I don't think I am justified in staying there against his
will because he is my brother." Mr. Knox could only shrug his
shoulders.

He remained up in town doing nothing, doubtful as to where he should go
and whither he should take his wife, while she was still at Manor
Cross, absolutely in the purple, but still not satisfied with her
position. She was somewhat cheered at this time by a highspirited
letter from her friend Mrs. Jones, written from Killancodlem.

"We are all here," said Mrs. Jones, "and we do so wish you were with
us. I have heard of your condition at last, and of course it would not
be fit that you should be amusing yourself with wicked idle people like
us, while all the future of all the Germains is, so to say, in your
keeping. How very opportune that that poor boy should have gone just as
the other is coming! Mind that you are a good girl and take care of
yourselves. I daresay all the Germain ladies are looking after you day
and night, so that you can't misbehave very much. No more Kappa-kappas
for many a long day for you!

"We have got Lord Giblet here. It was such a task! I thought cart-ropes
wouldn't have brought him? Now he is as happy as the day is long, and
like a tame cat in my hands. I really think he is very much in love
with her, and she behaves quite prettily. I took care that Green pere
should come down in the middle of it, and that clenched it. The lover
didn't make the least fight when papa appeared, but submitted himself
like a sheep to the shearers. I shouldn't have done it if I hadn't
known that he wanted a wife and if I hadn't been sure that she would
make a good one. There are some men who never really get on their legs
till they're married, and never would get married without a little
help. I'm sure he'll bless me, or would do, only he'll think after a
bit that he did it all by himself.

"Our friend Jack is with us, behaving very well, but not quite like
himself. There are two or three very pretty girls here, but he goes
about among them quite like a steady old man. I got him to tell me that
he'd seen you at Brotherton, and then he talked a deal of nonsense
about the good you'd do when you