They have never met since her flight from home, and, more, she has no suspicion that he ever took an interest in her save as Mr.Grail's future wife.' 'She does not know that ?' 'She has no idea of it.

They have never exchanged a more than friendly word.

He believed, when absent from England, that she was already married, and of _his_ movements since then she is wholly ignorant.' She listened with frank surprise; her face showed nothing more than that.
'But,' she said, hesitatingly, 'I cannot quite understand.

He holds himself quite without responsibility?
He leaves England without troubling about her future ?' 'Not at all.

He knows I have her in my care.