'Well, scheme as you will, there will be small advantage to me,' he murmured.

'The castle commission is as good as gone, and a bill for two hundred pounds falls due next week.' 'Cheer up, heart! My position, if you only knew it, has ten times the difficulties of yours, since this disagreeable discovery.

Let us consider if we can assist each other.

The competition drawings are to be sent in--when ?' 'In something over six weeks--a fortnight before she returns from the Scilly Isles, for which place she leaves here in a few days.' 'O, she goes away--that's better.

Our lover will be working here at his drawings, and she not present.' 'Exactly.