“Don’t call yourself names,” said she with a sort of forlorn resignation. “It can’t be helped. Every one knows it. Every one will always know, and look round at the name of Candover.” Sir Harry was seized with an inspiration. “Why don’t you change it?” he said abruptly. Then, before she could answer, he saw his opportunity, and hurried on: “They look round at the name Candover, you say. They wouldn’t if you were called--Archdale.” Pamela tried to pretend she took this as a joke. “Why do you laugh?” said he. “You’ll have to marry some day, you know! Why shouldn’t you be happy? Oh, you don’t know how soon you’d be able to forget, if you were!” Pamela listened with her head bent, a feeling of deep gratitude and happiness stealing into her heart at the thought that this man, whom she had secretly liked so much, should come to her and generously offer to lift the great shadow off her life. She shook her head, slowly, gently. “There’s poor Babs!” she said softly. “Oh, we’ll find a husband for Babs too! Babs is a dear girl!” Pamela laughed, happily, tenderly this time. “You seem to think,” she said meditatively, as she let him take up the end of the long white fox boa that encircled her throat, and wind it round his own hand caressingly, coming nearer as he did so, “that marriage is a panacea for all evils!” Sir Harry glanced at Gerard and Audrey, whose figures could be seen, framed in the long bare strings of Virginia creeper and the green glossy ivy, at the mullioned window of the old redbrick mansion. “Well, it looks like it, doesn’t it?” he said, as he got near enough to kiss her. THE END TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Florence Warden was the pseudonym of Florence Alice (Price) James. Minor spelling inconsistencies (_e.g._ card-tables/card tables, overwrought/over-wrought, repellant/repellent, etc.) have been preserved. Alterations to the text: Add TOC. Fix a few instances of periods _following_ the closing quotation marks of dialogue. [Chapter VII] Change “with such _convential_ words of thanks as he could muster” to _conventional_. (what she would do when she left “The _Briers_,”) to _Briars_. [Chapter XV] (“And what is that?” _askey_ Audrey.) to _asked_. [Chapter XIX] “And standing on the top. she looked down while her face quivered…” change period to comma. [End of text]