“Yes.” Cassandra looked away from the girl’s searching eyes.

“They say he never has married, and that is fortunate too; for he has lived so long in America, and never expecting to come into the title, he might have married somebody his own set over here never could have received, and that would have been bad, wouldn’t it?”

Cassandra turned and looked gravely at the girl. She wished to stop her, but could not think how to do it. She could not bear to hear her husband talked over in this way.

“They are tremendous swells. Lady Thryng looks high for him, and well she may, for mother says he’s worthy of a princess, he’s that rich and high bred, too, for all that he was only a doctor over in America. Mother says it’s