CONTENTS "For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is." ROBERT BROWNING. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fraser immediately became the object of Beatrix' whole attention . . . Frontispiece . . . "Don't you think we make a charming picture of connubial felicity?" "It won't be many days before we find scandal rearing its head at us" In this picture stood the vital figures of Beatrix and Franklin, hand in hand SCANDAL SCANDAL I I "By Jove, there's Beatrix Vanderdyke!" "By Jove, there's Beatrix Vanderdyke!" "Why not?"