It really was a letter from Lady Gorgon, in which she exclaimed that, "had sheknown Mr. Perkins to be a nephew of her friend Mr. Crampton, shenever for a moment would have opposed his marriage with her niece,and she had written that morning to her dear Lucy, begging that themarriage breakfast should take place in Baker Street."

"It shall be in Mecklenburgh Square," exclaimed John Perkins stoutly; andin Mecklenburgh Square it was.