"I think Mr.Jacobi's influence has done great harm," she wrote; "Cedric says such extraordinary things sometimes, that I feel quite frightened to hear him.

He never used to talk so--surely Oxford cannot have done this." Malcolm ground his teeth rather savagely when he read this.

"He has poisoned the wells," he said to himself a second time.

"There is no punishment too severe for one who tries to contaminate the innocence of youth!" Dinah's letters became more cheerful after a time.

Cedric liked having her near him, and she saw him for an hour or two every day.