"It is, of course, in confidence. I may depend upon you—should there be no result."
"Quite!"
"Then, could you tell me this? Is there the slightest hope, that—say, under any circumstances—Miss Valentine might marry?"
"I don't see why not!"
"I imagined—that perhaps—she seems so entirely the home-daughter—"
"If it were for her happiness, how could they not be glad?" asked Lettice. "And they all love Prue so much! Everybody does, who knows her."
"As you know her!"
"Yes. I have never seen any one else like her."
A smile stole over Mr. Kelly's serious face, and vanished.
"She was once, I believe, engaged."