Jeffrey Palliser was almost the last in the room, but directly he entered Lady Glencora got up from her seat, and met him as he was coming into the crowd. "You must take my cousin, Alice Vavasor, in to dinner," she said, "and;--will you oblige me to-day?"

Jeffrey Palliser was almost the last in the room. Lady Glencora went to meet him, saying, "You must take my cousin, Alice Vavasor, in to dinner, and