CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.
Blind Love LUCILLA was at the piano when I entered the sitting-room.
"I wanted you of all things," she said.

"I have sent all over the house in search of you.

Where have you been ?" I told her.
She sprang to her feet with a cry of delight.
"You have persuaded him to trust you--you have discovered everything.

You only said 'I have been at Browndown'-- and I heard it in your voice.

Out with it! out with it!" She never moved--she seemed hardly to breathe--while I was telling her all that had passed at the interview between Oscar and me.