_Apropos_, Mr.Romaine, how did you come yourself, and how long have you been in the house ?' I added, surprised, on the retrospect, not to have heard him arrive.
'I drove up in a chaise and pair,' he returned.

'Any one might have heard me.

But you were not listening, I suppose?
being so extremely at your ease in the very house of your enemy, and under a capital charge! And I have been long enough here to do your business for you.

Ah, yes, I did it, God forgive me!--did it before I so much as asked you the explanation of the paragraph.

For some time back the will has been prepared; now it is signed; and your uncle has heard nothing of your recent piece of activity.