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Your wife takes no part in it?"
"Certainly not; but I doubt whether that need be a precedent for
you. I am answerable for her, and you could hardly keep out of it
without making a divided household."
"I see the difference, and perhaps I have made myself quite
unpleasant enough already."
"As the opposition?"
"And Camilla has been very kind in giving me much more freedom than
I expected, and pacifying papa. She let me go every Friday evening
to help Lady Susan Strangeways at her mothers' meeting."
"Lady Susan Strangeways! I have heard of her."
"She has been my comforter and help all this time. She is all
kindness and heartiness,--elbow-deep in everything good. She got up
at five o'clock to finish the decorations at St. Maurice's, and to-
day she is taking five hundred school-children to Windsor forest."
"Is she the mother of the young man at Backsworth?"
"Yes," said Eleonora, in rather a different tone. "Perhaps she goes
rather far; and he has flown into the opposite extreme, though they
say he is improving, and has given up the turf, and all that sort of
thing.


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