"What people?" said Clara, thinking as she spoke of the whole family at Aylmer Park.
"Your husband will tell you so."
"I have no husband,—as yet,—to order me what to think or what not to think."
"No;—not quite as yet. But you will tell him all this."
"He knows it. It was he who told me."
"What!—Captain Aylmer?"
"Yes; Captain Aylmer."
"And what did he say?"
"Never mind. Captain Aylmer is not my husband,—not as yet. If he takes me, he must take me as I am, not as he might possibly have wished me to be. Lady Aylmer—"
"And does Lady Aylmer know it?"