I also believe that you have kept alive in her that spirit of unreasonable hatred which she has felt towards me." "Unreasonable, you call it ?" the woman almost shouted.

"You, who came home to her with the blood on your hands of the man whom, if only you had kept away, she might one day have loved?
Unreasonable, you call it ?" "I have finished what I had to say, Mrs.Unthank," Dominey declared.

"I am compelled by important business to leave here for two or three days.

On my return I shall embark upon the changes with which I have acquainted you.

In the meantime," he added, watching a curious change in the woman's expression, "I have written this morning to Doctor Harrison, asking him to come up this afternoon and to keep Lady Dominey under his personal observation until my return." She stood quite still, looking at him.