ABSTRACT
Adrienne Lancaster disturbed husband and wife at their tête-à-tête. She was in a state of great anxiety, for she had just learnt that her mother stood in imminent danger of losing the little pittance on which they had hitherto been struggling to live and to keep up appearances. What was to become of them if the blow did fall Adrienne dared scarcely conjecture. She was in the utmost distress, for her mother had been urging her to accept Bob Hunter’s proposal, resorting to tears, commands, reproaches, and finally to ‘wrestlings in prayer’ in her daughter’s presence.
