” “In the present case,” Drummond remarked, glancing across the room, “Cheveney wouldn’t permit it. You creep around in a nun’s habit, peering into a private ballroom. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. Lest the carpenter should be taxed with too much uxoriousness, it behoves us to ascertain whether the personal attractions of his helpmate would, in any degree, justify the devotion he displayed. She was trying to adjust the wimple, dragging at it and fighting with her loosened hair. "Instantly, Hobson," returned Lady Trafford; "as soon as the carriage can be brought round. She shrugged her shoulders. ‘We’ll cross that bridge if and when we come to it.
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