body in London has studied their history so thoroughly.
I did wish you could have heard him. And the day before
I was at the House--in the ladies' gallery. I can't
imagine how he got admission for me. He IS so clever!"

"We are going down to Canterbury for a couple of days,"
said Clara. "We start at noon. Will you go with us?"

"No, I think not. George does not seem to care for
cathedrals. And he has plans for me, no doubt."

Miss Vance brushed the bonnet and carefully rolled up the
strings. "Are you satisfied? Is London the London you
have been thinking of these twenty years?" she asked.

"Oh, a thousand times more! And George has been with me
every day--every day!"

Miss Vance picked up the gloves, looking impatiently at
the poor lady's happy face. "Now she has gone off into
one of her silly transports of delight, and for no
earthly reason!"

"I noticed that George has seen very little of Lisa
lately," she said tentatively. "If he really means to
marry her----"

"Marry her! Clara! You surely never feared THAT?"

"He certainly told us plainly enough that he would do