"And leave her here with him, so that all the world shall say that I am running away from my own wife? Hendon is your house now, and this is mine;--and here I must stay till my time has come." This was very sad, not as indicating the state of his father's health, as to which he was more disposed to take the doctor's opinion than that of the patient, but as showing the infirmity of his father's mind. He had been aware of a certain weakness in his father's character,--a desire not so much for ruling as for seeming to rule all that were around him. The Marquis had wished to be thought a despot even when he had delighted in submitting himself to the stronger mind of his first wife. Now he felt the chains that were imposed upon him, so that they galled him when he could not throw them off. All this was very sad to Hampstead; but it did not make him think that his father's health had in truth been seriously affected. END OF VOL. I. * * * * * * MARION FAY. A Novel. by ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Author of "Framley Parsonage," "Orley Farm," "The Way We Live Now," etc., etc. In Three Volumes. VOL. II. London: Chapman & Hall, Limited, 11, Henrietta St. 1882 [All Rights reserved.] Bungay: Clay and Taylor, Printers. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. I. THE IRREPRESSIBLE CROCKER. II. MRS. RODEN'S ELOQUENCE. III. MARION'S VIEWS ABOUT MARRIAGE. IV. LORD HAMPSTEAD IS IMPATIENT. V. THE QUAKER'S ELOQUENCE. VI. MARION'S OBSTINACY. VII. MRS. DEMIJOHN'S PARTY. VIII. NEW YEAR'S DAY. IX. MISS DEMIJOHN'S INGENUITY. X. KING'S COURT, OLD BROAD STREET. XI. MR. GREENWOOD BECOMES AMBITIOUS. XII. LIKE THE POOR CAT I' THE ADAGE. XIII. LADY FRANCES SEES HER LOVER. XIV. MR. GREENWOOD'S FEELINGS. XV. "THAT WOULD BE DISAGREEABLE." XVI. "I DO." XVII. AT GORSE HALL. XVIII. POOR WALKER. XIX. FALSE TIDINGS. XX. NEVER, NEVER, TO COME AGAIN. XXI. DI CRINOLA. MARION FAY. CHAPTER I. THE IRREPRESSIBLE CROCKER.