CHAPTER XIX.
[Among the Wounded]

CHAPTER XX.
[Joanna]

CHAPTER XXI.
[As it was in the Beginning]

CHAPTER XXII.
[For Conscience' Sake]

CHAPTER XXIII.
[The Election]

CHAPTER XXIV.
[Life In London]

PROLOGUE.

A woman's tongue is ever slow
To tell the thing she does not know.

There was a large dinner-party in Grosvenor Square at the house of Lord Kesterton, one of the new peers.