2/16 "All the same, I have changed. I am not in the least in love with you any longer." "It was the fear of that change in you," he sighed, "which kept me for so long in the furthest corners of the world." She looked at him with a severity which was obviously assumed. I know the exact position of your affairs, and I know, too, that the two hundred a year which your lawyer has been sending out to you came partly out of a few old trees and partly out of his own pocket. How you are going to live over here I cannot imagine, but it isn't the least use expecting Henry to do a thing for you. The poor man has scarcely enough pocket money to pay his travelling expenses when he goes lecturing." "Lecturing ?" Dominey repeated. |