She slipped into the room opposite, and stood listening in the dark.

She could see them as they came out.

There was my Lord and the Doctor first, and behind came Major Buckley, who had dropped in, as his custom was, on Sunday evening, and who must have arrived while she was up-stairs.

As they passed the door, inside which she stood, his Lordship turned round and said:-- "I tell you what, my dear Major, if that old Hawker was a tenant of mine, I'd take away his lease, and, if I could, force him to leave the parish.

One man of that kind does incalculable harm in a village, by lowering the tone of the morality of the place.