What can be more interesting to a girl than this first
visit to her future home? And now Isabel Boncassen was to make
her first visit to the house In Carlton Terrace, which the Duke
had already declared his purpose of surrendering to the young
couple. She was going among very grand things,--so grand that those
whose affairs in life are less magnificent may think that her mind
should have soared altogether above the chairs and tables, and
reposed itself among diamonds, gold and silver ornaments, rich
necklaces, the old masters, and alabaster statuary. But Dukes and
Duchesses must sit upon chairs,--or at any rate on sofas,--as well
as their poorer brethren, and probably have the same regard for
their comfort. Isabel was not above her future furniture, or the
rooms that were to be her rooms, or the stairs which she would
have to tread, or the pillow on which her head must rest. She had
never yet seen the outside of the house in which she was to live,
and was now prepared to make her visit with as much enthusiasm as
though her future abode was to be prepared for her in a small
house in a small street beyond Islington.
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