'After marriage, you mean? Oh, there would be a scene, a few hysterics perhaps, and there the matter would be at an end. A wife can't afford to be so punctilious as a maiden fancy free. She has herself too much to lose.'
George accepted the maternal advice, and went out to Mauchline after business hours that very day.
CHAPTER XLI.
A GREAT RELIEF.
ext afternoon Gladys herself drove the lawyer and his wife from Bourhill to the station.
'Now, my dear,' said Mrs. Fordyce, as they were about to part, 'I shall allow the girls to come down on Saturday, on condition that you return with them at the end of a week, prepared to accompany us to London.'
Gladys nodded, with a bright smile.