"I really do not know. I came, so far as I know my own mind, because my mother came," and then their eyes met with a curious, half-laughing gaze.
It was strange that they should have both come there without having any clear or distinct notion why.
"It seems to me," said Lord Chandos, "that we are both under guidance."
"I am glad, for my own part," said Lady Erskine. "It is much easier to be guided than to guide. I find it easier to obey than to command."
"Do you?" he asked, laughingly. "You will find it very easy then some day 'to love, honor and obey.'"
"I do not doubt it," said the beautiful heiress, calmly. "I should not care to go through life alone; I want a stronger soul than my own to lean on."
And again Lord Chandos went back in thought to the noble, self-reliant girl who would hold her own against the world if need should be.
And yet he liked Lady Marion; her graceful, languid helplessness had a great charm for him. When he bade her good-evening, it was with the hope that they would soon meet again.