It is not my way to beset my enemies in the dark." "Indeed, indeed, Sir John, I had not supposed it in my heart," replied the afflicted Lionel.

"Forgive me that I should have come to ask a question so unworthy.

Set it down to my distracted state.

I have not been the same man these months, I think, since that happening in Godolphin Park.

The thing has preyed upon my mind.