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And so well did she manage the affair that not even Dorothy
suspected the real state of affairs, until one morning, when Archie, who
had been absent for two weeks on a tour through Scotland, astonished her
by walking into the house with Daisy, whom he introduced as his wife and
the mistress of Stoneleigh. She, too, had been to Scotland to visit some
friends, and there the marriage was consummated, and Archie had some one
to take care of him at last.
And when his uncle John wrote him a most angry letter denouncing him as
his nephew, and cutting off his yearly allowance, which, though small,
was still something to depend upon, Daisy rose to the situation and
managed his annuity, and managed the household, and managed him, until
enough was saved from their slender means to start on the campaign which
she had planned for herself, and which she carried out so successfully.
The Continent was her chosen field of action, and Monte Carlo the point
toward which she steadily set her face; until, at last, one Lovely
October day, five months after her marriage, Mr.


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