never followed.  He recommended her to give up her house in town, to find a home for her daughter elsewhere, and also for Felix if he would consent to follow her.  Should he not so consent, then let the young man bear the brunt of his own misdoings.  Doubtless, when he could no longer get bread in London he would find her out.  Roger was always severe when he spoke of the baronet,—­or seemed to Lady Carbury to be severe.

But, in truth, she did not ask for advice in order that she might follow it.  She had plans in her head with which she knew that Roger would not sympathise.  She still thought that Sir Felix might bloom and burst out into grandeur, wealth, and fashion, as the husband of a great heiress, and in spite of her...