14/34 Mrs.Tyrrell spoke much of him the first evening, lamenting that he had so withdrawn himself from his friends. But he did not come. Even in a week the change was very marked. He seemed to have taken a resolve to restore the old order of things by force of will. Doubtless his conversations with Mrs.Ormonde about Annabel were an incentive to effort; relieved from the weight of suffering, he could see that the girl was not herself. |