'I'm ashamed to tell you, Miss.' For the first time, Agnes spoke sharply.

'Nonsense, Emily! Tell me the name directly--or drop the subject--whichever you like best.' Emily made a last desperate effort.

She wrung her handkerchief hard in her lap, and let off the name as if she had been letting off a loaded gun:--'Lord Montbarry!' Agnes rose and looked at her.
'You have disappointed me,' she said very quietly, but with a look which the courier's wife had never seen in her face before.

'Knowing what you know, you ought to be aware that it is impossible for me to communicate with Lord Montbarry.

I always supposed you had some delicacy of feeling.