In due time Captain Gascoigne returned to the East, _via_ America and Japan, and Angel passed into the hands of her grandmother. She grew up and left school with sincere regret, and many injunctions from Miss Morton, who deplored the departure of her favourite pupil, and contemplated her future with considerable apprehension. She had heard of Lady Augusta Gascoigne as a lively, worldly matron, fond of cards, racing, and racketing. What a guide and counsellor for a girl of eighteen! "Miss Angel Gascoigne—by her grandmother, Lady Augusta Gascoigne," was a notification in a _Morning Post_, succeeding a March Drawing Room, and the "imp" was launched. She came out and enjoyed her first season, and was warmly welcomed in a set in which the only disqualification was a failure to be smart! Angel was not the least afraid of granny, whom she alternately amazed, amused, delighted, and defied. She reversed the situation of aunt and niece, and was Eva's steady support, confidante, adviser, and idol. She made the house gay with her songs, her light laugh, her flitting foot, her radiant young personality. Her cousins and aunts were electrified when they first met "Miss Gascoigne;" her aunt was almost always "Poor Miss Eva." Their attempts at patronage were easily disposed of; the quick wit and cool self-possession of the Angel of Ramghur combined with the grace and _aplomb_ of the Angel of Hill Street was more than a match for the Harchesters and Lorraine girls. Seeing that she refused to pose as a mere nobody and a poor relation, they changed their point of view and became her sworn allies, admirers, and friends. Immediately after the London season Lady Augusta and her family left Hill Street for Aix-les-Bains. * * * * *