"Oh, yes, so long as Mrs. Ward doesn't get it." "She's a reformed character. Why, the other day she told me that she considered Dorothy irreligious." "Pah! New brooms. She'll soon grow weary of that pose. When the effect of poor Jenny Howard's death wears off she will be as gay and silly as before. Don't have her in this house, that's all." "You can depend upon that, sir. But Dorothy will be here--Dorothy, whom I shall see to-morrow crowned with orange-blossoms, and----" Derrington laughed, but not unkindly. "Well, well. Better orange-blossoms than yellow holly." George nodded. "I hope never to see yellow holly again," he said, and Derrington agreed. So their conversation ended on the threshold of George's new life with that last reference to the old. THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Yellow Holly, by Fergus Hume