Will you follow me quietly, sir, or must force be employed ?" "I will go with you." The reply was very tranquil, but in the look that met his own as it was given, Baroni saw that some other motive than that of any fear was its spring; that some cause beyond the mere abhorrence of "a scene" was at the root of the quiescence.
"It must be so," said Cecil huskily to his friend.

"This man is right, so far as he knows.

He is only acting on his own convictions.

We cannot blame him.

The whole is--a mystery, an error.