"I will not believe that it can come to that.

You know that he is good at heart,--that nobody on earth loves you as he does." So they went on for two days, and on the evening of the second day there came a letter from Trevelyan to his wife.

They had neither of them seen him, although he had been in and out of the house.

And on the afternoon of the Sunday a new grievance, a very terrible grievance, was added to those which Mrs.Trevelyan was made to bear.
Her husband had told one of the servants in the house that Colonel Osborne was not to be admitted.

And the servant to whom he had given this order was the--cook.