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say or do anything which had not been said or done hundreds of times before; and in the end they married Lizzie with all due ceremonial and the most expensive of wedding breakfasts, and all the neighbours admitted it was a very satisfactory settlement, and that they never expected it would turn out so well; adding, in the same breath, that they had foreseen it all from the very beginning.

In those very young days Lizzie Granby was a pretty girl, but she had by no means arrived at her meridian. It was only when she became Mrs. Austin, and passed through the finishing processes of her tailor, photographer, coiffeur, dentist, and society paragraph maker, that she emerged as a fashionable beauty. Mr. Austin took his wife to a handsome establishment in the neighbouring city, and she lost no time in becoming the rage at the colonial metropolis. She was “taken up” at an early stage by the great lady of the place—a lady by no means straitlaced, and of a very different calibre to the severely proper aunts and cousins in Green Street—and who found Lizzie charming just in proportion as she realized the usual Anglican conception of a spirited colonial girl. In a very short time Mrs. Austin’s Greek profile and her slang expressions, her smart tennis and