"A good deal. Anthony has been telling me that he is in love with Pamela Graydon." "My darling----" Kitty lifted her hand. "It only affects me in so far as it affects Anthony. Pamela is engaged to Lord Glengall."' "I remember him. I saw him when I was there. He looked like a ploughman, and I thought he was one. I suppose she marries him for the title." "She marries him--if she does--because she is in love with Anthony, and thinks he has played her false." "You are too romantic, Kitty." "It is the first time I have been called so. Forgive me for something I must ask you. Are you at the root of the mischief?" "What do you mean, Kitty?" "I begin to have a glimmering of why you brought her here." "Kitty, tell me first. Do you not mind at all about Anthony?" "Not in the way you mean. He never cared for me, not in that way. It is no use trying to bring these things about." "It has been my dream, Kitty, since you were quite a little girl. I never loved Anthony; but if you were his wife, I think I should begin to love him. I thought you cared for him always." "I should not have let you think that. Some of all this trouble is my fault. It is better to be open all the way through. I kept it from you because I feared the sharp disappointment it would be to you." "That you did not love Anthony?" "More than that, Auntie Janie, I loved someone else. I couldn't help it. I would have pleased you, if I could, but it did not seem to be in my hands. There is a fatality about such things. We might have cared for each other if we had not always known you wanted us to." Lady Jane looked about her with a bewildered air, as though her world were crumbling. "I have thought of it for so many years," she said at last, "that I cannot realise how, between you, you have destroyed the one solid hope of my life." "I love you so much, Auntie Janie, that I think I would have married Anthony, without love, to please you, if there had not been someone else." Lady Jane turned and looked at her, and her face was tragical. "I would not have wished that, Kitty. A marriage without love! You don't know what it is, child, especially if there has been--or might have been--someone else. I only wanted you to have the wish of your heart, and to bind you closer to me at the same time." "Nothing can ever undo our love, Auntie Janie--nothing, nothing." "Wait till your husband intervenes, Kitty. Who is it, by the way? I have seen no sign of such an one in our circle." "It is Mr. Leslie," said Lady Kitty with bent head. "Anthony's friend? Yes, I know you liked him, but I thought it was for Anthony's sake." "I am so sorry," Lady Kitty said again. Then she went on, with a timidity foreign to her: "Anthony is very unhappy, Auntie Janie. Can nothing be done?" Lady Jane turned away her head. "What do you expect me to do, Kitty?"