But tell me, Lily: is there _no_ one who has been admitted to your confidence ?" What purpose would be served by keeping back the name?
Lilian's eyes fell as she answered.
"Mr.Glazzard knows." "Mr.Eustace Glazzard ?" Lilian explained how and when it had become necessary to make him a sharer in the secret.
"Do you believe," Mrs.Wade asked, "that Northway really discovered you by chance ?" "I don't know.

He says so.

I can only feel absolutely sure that Mr.
Glazzard has nothing to do with it." Mrs.Wade mused doubtfully.
"Absolutely sure ?" "Oh, how is it possible?
If you knew him as well as we do!--Impossible!--He came to see us this very morning, on his way to be married, and laughed and talked!" "You are right, no doubt," returned the other, with quiet reassurance.
"If it wasn't chance, some obscure agency has been at work.

You must remember, Lily, that only by a miracle could you have lived on in security." "I have sometimes felt that," whispered the sufferer, her head falling.
"And it almost seems," went on Mrs.Wade, "as if Northway really had no intention of using his power to extort money.

To be sure, your own income is not to be despised by a man in his position; but most rascals would have gone to Mr.Quarrier .-- He is still in love with you, I suppose." The last words were murmured in a tone which caused the hearer to look up uneasily.