ad,
and prove a foolish fellow if you sound him. I 've thought something
like it, but wanted the word. They say themselves, "Get to know, and you
see with what little wisdom the world is governed!" You explain how it
is. I shall carry "aptitudes" away.'

She looked straight at Weyburn. 'If I were a younger woman I could kiss
you for it.'

He bowed to her very gratefully.

'Remember, my lady, there's a good deal of the Reformer in that
definition.'

'I stick to my class. But they shall hear a true word when there's one
abroad, I can tell them. That reminds me--you ought to have asked;
let me tell you I'm friendly with the Rev. Mr. Hampton-Evey. We had
a wrestle for half an hour, and I threw him and helped him up, and he
apologized for tumbling, and I subscribed to one of his charities,
and gave up about the pew, but had an excuse for not sitting under the
sermon. A poor good creature. He 's got the aptitudes for his office.
He won't do much to save his Church. I knew another who had his aptitude
for the classics, and he has mounted. He was my tutor when I was a girl.
He was fond of declaiming passages from Lucian and Longus and Ovid. One
day he was at it with a piece out of Daphnis and Chloe, and I said, "Now
translate." He fetched a gurgle to say he couldn't, and I slapped his
check. Will you believe it? the man was indignant. I told him, if he
would like to know why I behaved in "that unmaidenly way," he had better
apply at home. I had no further intimations of his classical aptitudes;
but he took me for a cleverer pupil than I was. I hadn't a notion of the
stuff he recited. I read by his face. That was my aptitude--always has
been. But think of the donkeys parents are when they let a man have a
chance of pouring his barley-sugar and sulphur into the ears of a
girl. Lots of girls have no latent heckles and prickles to match his
villany.--There's my brother come back to breakfast from a round. You
and I 'll have a drive before lunch, and a ride or a stroll in the
afternoon. There's a lot to see. I mean you to get the whole place into
your head. I 've ordered the phaeton, and you shall take the whip, with
me beside you. That's how my husband and I spent three-quarters of our
honeymoon.'

Each of the three breakfasted alone.

They met on the terrace. It was easily perceived that Lord Ormont stood
expecting an assault at any instant; prepared also to encounter and
do battle with his redoubtable sister. Only he wish