Jeanne looked up and found Kate's magnificent eyes fixed steadfastly upon her face.
"Is it for no other reason, miss," she asked, "that you have come back ?" "For none other in the world," Jeanne answered.

"I was unhappy in London, and I wanted to get somewhere where I should be quite unknown.
That is why I came here." "You didn't come back," Kate asked, "to see more of Mr.De la Borne, then ?" The simple directness of the question seemed to rob it of its impertinence.

Jeanne laughed goodhumouredly.
"I can assure you that I did not," she answered.

"To tell you the truth, and I hope that you will be kind and remember that I do not wish any one to know this, the reason why I only go out so early in the morning or late at night is because I do not wish to see any one from the Red Hall.

I do not wish them to know that I am here." "They do gossip in a small place like this most amazing," the girl said slowly.