'That would but have been to make the trouble thicker.

We were certainly in a very ill posture.' 'You do not yet appreciate how grave it was,' he replied.

'It was necessary for you that your cousin should go, and go at once.

You yourself had to leave to-night under cover of darkness, and how could you have done that with the Viscount in the next room?
He must go, then; he must leave without delay.

And that was the difficulty.' 'Pardon me, Mr.Romaine, but could not my uncle have bidden him go ?' I asked.
'Why, I see I must tell you that this is not so simple as it sounds,' he replied.