"It was always the same with him,--a desire for mastery, which he did not know how to use when he had obtained it.

If it were Nora, instead of the other sister, he would break her sweet heart within a month." Trevelyan dined at his club, and hardly spoke a word to any one during the evening.

At about eleven he started to walk home, but went by no means straight thither, taking a long turn through St.
James's Park, and by Pimlico.

It was necessary that he should make up his mind as to what he would do.

He had sternly refused the interference of a friend, and he must be prepared to act on his own responsibility.