"Sir Timothy was your guardian, so, of course, there was nobody to stop his marrying you if he liked.

Timothy was a sort of a Holy day name.

" "Is Sir Timothy ill?"

"Is Sir Timothy gone?

I am sure Sir Timothy would not be pleased ifBless my soul!"

" "It is that you don't understand the situation," she said; "you talk as though Sir Timothy and I were an ordinary husband and wife, entirely dependent on one another's love and sympathy.

St. Timothy's is a great, strong society of the rich, and the man they engage to preach to them on Sundays has mighty little to do that any figurehead couldn't do as well.