Captain Sedgewick has been candour itself upon the subject.

Captain Sedgewick is not my uncle.

He called at Lidford House one day when Gilbert had told him he should stay at home to write letters, and was duly presented to the Listers, who made a little dinner-party in his honour a few days afterwards, to which Captain Sedgewick and Marian were inviteda party which went off with more brightness and gaiety than was wont to distinguish the Lidford House entertainments.