The Duchess was worried about the christening robe, that had not yet
arrived, and she said to Janet,--
"Indeed, Janet, this delay reminds me of my anxiety over the chests
that were to bring me my first finery--dost remember, at Crandlemar?"
"Aye. It does not take much of a memory to think back seven years!"
"Seven years! Why, Janet, thou art growing old!"
"Nay, sweet Mistress; but the two generations I now nurse are very
young."
"'Tis true.--But what thinkest thou could detain the chest? Father
Pomphrey cannot be kept waiting for a christening robe. And to think
of Lady Ann being baptized in a common frock! 'Twould make Bettie St.
Mar laugh; she already feels quite jealous because we are the first
to have Father Pomphrey. And methinks, Janet, now that she is in
expectancy--she will so vibrate 'twixt France and England,--fearing
she will not be near Father Pomphrey for the christening--that little
Julian and Francois will forget which is home."
"She need not do that; he could go to France.
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