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If the voyage were only to last one night I might sit up, pistol in hand, but if the wind is foul we might be a week. We are a pretty strong party. Mr. Chetwynd you know him is going with me; there will also be two runners from Bow Street, and I want you to take another good man with you. Of course, on board we shall separate.

We mustn't swoon in happiness or delight, but if we say 'Take me, use me, let me help! it is different, because we want to share whatever is given us, to hand it on, not to pile it up. Of course it's little enough that we can do: but think of old Mrs. Chetwynd again what has she to give? Yet it is more than Solomon in all his beauty had to offer. We must be simple, we mustn't be ambitious.

And whenever Sir Chetwynd spoke of his "young girls" he was moved to irreverent smiling, as he knew the youngest of the twain was at least thirty.

It had seemed as if women were not for this bright star. And here Elizabeth Chetwynd, who had left the Five Towns a quarter of a century before at the age of twenty, had caught him! Austere, moustached, formidable, desiccated, she must have done it with her powerful intellect! It must be a union of intellects! He had been impressed by hers, and she by his, and then their intellects had kissed.

Cotter walked on, and Mark fell back, and joined Dick and Boldero, who had fallen behind when they saw him speaking to Cotter. "Well, Mark, I congratulate you," Dick Chetwynd said. "You did it wonderfully, though how on earth you knew that fellow had a card in his hand is more than I can guess."

"Saidie is quite right; if I don't put my foot down I shall soon be nothing better than a white slave." "Putting her foot down," certainly had one effect, namely, that of making life anything but a bed of roses for the unfortunate doctor. Never had Bella shown herself so unamiable and unloveable as during the next two days. John Chetwynd hardly knew how to act towards her.

"I made Miss Chetwynd come and talk to mother," said Sophia magnificently one night to simple Constance, as if to imply, 'Your Miss Chetwynd is my washpot. To Constance, Sophia's mere enterprise was just as staggering as her success. Fancy her deliberately going out that Saturday morning, after her mother's definite decision, to enlist Miss Chetwynd in her aid!

He had never really cared for them, even in his bachelor days, and now he would have cut his right hand off rather than be seen with his young wife beside him, at such resorts. Then, too, Dr. Chetwynd felt that it behoved him to be circumspect in all his actions, for his practice was steadily increasing and he was becoming popular, and had serious thoughts of migrating westward.

Cunningham went down in a post chaise, two days before the wedding, and Mark drove down in his gig with them. Dick Chetwynd met them on horseback just outside Reigate, and escorted the ladies to his house, Mark driving on to that of Sir Charles Harris. Millicent found the house full of her special friends, whom she had asked to be her bridesmaids.

Chetwynd promptly turned his back upon her. "I am addressing my wife," he said frigidly. "Yes; I would like to see you talking to me in that tone of voice," returned his sister-in-law. "Bella, what have you to say for yourself? Have you no self-respect whatever, and no consideration for your husband's position?" "Oh, I'm sick of hearing about your position," said his wife pettishly.