His mind was as much occupied as on the evening previous, and he spent the hours from tea-time until eleven o'clock in the library, writing.

If Mrs.Markland did not appear to notice any change in her husband since Mr.Lyon came to Woodbine Lodge, it was not that the change had escaped her.

No--she was too deeply interested in all that concerned him to fail in noting every new aspect of thought or feeling.

He had said nothing of awakened purpose, quickened into activity by long conferences with his guest, but she saw that such purposes were forming.

Of their nature she was in entire ignorance.