He had not read it more than six times,--in truth, he was getting itby heart,--when his head clerk came to him from the front room,bearing a card: a footman had brought it, who exclaimed his lady waswaiting below. Lady Gorgon's name was on the card! To seize hishat and rush downstairs was, with Mr. Scully, the work of aninfinitesimal portion of time.

It was indeed Lady Gorgon inside her Gorgonian chariot.