His weakness seemed to bring out her maternal instincts.

incapable of attaching a sensible man

When it was known before starting the sum Lord Portsmouth stood on his filly, there was a perfect furore to back her, as a pony would be ' a perfect stoater ' for him ; and his commission, it was understood, considerably exceeded that sum.

But why cannot women—and mothers especially—have their own retiring room of the kind I remember some years ago finding such a pleasant surprise on a Kings Cross -Edinburgh train?