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Archibald Floyd received the news of his daughter's choice with evident pride and satisfaction. It seemed as if some heavy burden had been taken away, as if some cruel shadow had been lifted from the lives of father and daughter.
The banker took his family back to Felden Woods, with Talbot Bulstrode in his train; and the chintz rooms -- pretty, cheerful chambers, with bow-windows that looked across the well-kept stable-yard into long glades of oak and beech -- were prepared for the ex-hussar, who was to spend his Christmas at Felden.