he Strathspey is heard
again.]

[EGIDIA enters.]

EGIDIA.

The Strathspey. Come into the ball-room. What has happened?

LADY TWOMBLEY.

I can't enter the ball-room again to-night!

EARL OF DRUMDURRIS.

But you must dance the Strathspey.

LADY TWOMBLEY.

Must I? Dance then! [They take their places for the dance.] Pa!
Valentine, Imogen! Brooke, Effie! Keith, Egidia! Lady Macphail, Sir
Colin! Dance! Dance with foolish, thoughtless, weak-headed Kitty
Twombley for the last time, for to-morrow she becomes a sober, wise,
happy, and contented woman! Dance!

[They dance the Strathspey and Reel--SIR JULIAN with LADY TWOMBLEY,
DRUMDURRIS with EGIDIA, BROOKE with LADY EUPHEMIA, VALENTINE with
IMOGEN, LADY MACPHAIL with MACPHAIL. The DOWAGER sits apart gloomily.]

SIR JULIAN TWOMBLEY.

[To LADY TWOMBLEY while dancing.] You've been indiscreet again, Kitty.

LADY TWOMBLEY.

Finally, Julian, finally!

SIR JULIAN TWOMBLEY.

No more extravagance?

LADY TWOMBLEY.

Never! Never!

SIR JULIAN TWOMBLEY.

And you resign yourself to a peaceful, rural life?

LADY TWOMBLEY.

Oh!

SIR JULIAN TWOMBLEY.

Promise me--promise me!

LADY TWOMBLEY.

Ha, ha! Dance, pa, dance!

THE END.

=A Selection=

FROM

_MR. WM. HEINEMANN'S LIST_

January 1892.

=The Crown Copyright Series.=

_The changed conditions of publishing in the English-speaking countries,
brought about by the American Copyright Legislation of 1891, have made
it possible--without doing injustice to the authors--to issue new and
original works of fiction in a form immediately accessible to the large
class of readers who are unwilling to be permanently and entirely
beholden to the Circulating Libraries. Mr. Heinemann has therefore made
arrangements with a number of the first and most popular authors of
to-day,_

_ENGLISH, AMERICAN, AND COLONIAL,_

_which will enable him to issue new and original works of theirs in a
Series to be known as the CROWN COPYRIGHT SERIES at a uniform price of
FIVE SHILLINGS per volume._

_These novels will not pass through an expensive two or three volume
edition, but they will be obtainable at the Circulating Libraries as
well as at all Booksellers and Bookstalls._

_The following volumes are now ready_:--

ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. By AMELIE RIVES, Author of "The Quick or the
Dead," &c.

THE PENANCE OF PORTIA JAMES. By "TASMA," Author of "Uncle Piper of
Piper's Hill," &c.

INCONSEQUENT LIVES. A V