ILLUSTRATION

"AS THOUGH SHE LISTENED STILL TO WORDS IN HER EARS"[Frontispiece]
"LADY HENRY LISTENED EAGERLY"Facing p. [30]
"'INDEED I WILL!' CRIED SIR WILFRID, AND THEY WALKED ON"[52]
"LADY HENRY GASPED. SHE FELL BACK INTO HER CHAIR"[100]
"HE ENTERED UPON A MERRY SCENE"[242]
"'FOR MY ROSE'S CHILD,' HE SAID, GENTLY"[254]
"HER HANDS CLASPED IN FRONT OF HER"[356]
"SHE FOUND HERSELF KNEELING BESIDE HIM"[480]

LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTER

I

"Hullo! No!--Yes!--upon my soul, it is Jacob! Why, Delafield, my dear fellow, how are you?"

So saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to meet a young man who was at the same moment stepping out of another hansom a little farther down the pavement.

The pleasure in the older man's voice rang clear, and the younger met him with an equal cordiality, expressed perhaps through a manner more leisurely and restrained.

"So you are home, Sir Wilfrid? You were announced, I saw. But I thought Paris would have detained you a bit."