"The Durwards seem to know half London, so that we crowded about a dozen engagements into each day--and a few more into the night." "_Durward_ ?" The word sprang violently from Trent's lips, almost as though jerked out of him, and Sara, glancing towards him in some astonishment, surprised a strange, suddenly vigilant expression in his face.

It was immediately succeeded by a blank look of indifference, yet beneath the assumption of indifference his eyes seemed to burn with a kind of slumbering hostility.
"Yes--the people I have been staying with," she explained.

"Do you know them, by any chance ?" "I really can't say," he replied carelessly.

"Durward is not a very uncommon name, is it ?" "Their name was originally Lovell--they only acquired the Durward with some property.

Mrs.Durward is an extraordinarily beautiful woman.