He had expressed a hope for a meeting there.

At the Academy, accordingly, the test should be applied.

It was all a fabrication; Northway, laying some new plot, might already know Glazzard by sight.

But the latter should be put on his guard, and Mrs.
Wade should then be taught that henceforth she was forbidden to concern herself with his--Quarrier's--affairs.
He went home and passed a cheerless time until the next morning.
Suspicion, in spite of himself, crept into his thoughts.

He was sick at heart under the necessity, perhaps life-long, of protecting Lilian's name against a danger which in itself was a sort of pollution.