If he went by Godolphin Court he might chance to meet Peter again, and his past anger warned him against courting such a meeting, warned him to avoid it lest evil should betide.

Indeed, so imperious was the warning, and such were his fears of himself after what had just passed, that he resolved to leave Penarrow on the next day.

Whither he would go he did not then determine.

He might repair to London, and he might even go upon another cruise--an idea which he had lately dismissed under Rosamund's earnest intercession.

But it was imperative that he should quit the neighbourhood, and place a distance between Peter Godolphin and himself until such time as he might take Rosamund to wife.