She had endeavoured to reassure and comfort her mistress, saying that nothing would come of it as nothing had come of that other Tenby visit, and giving it as her counsel that the ladies should allow the whole matter to pass by without further notice.

But at the same time Lady Fitzgerald had remarked that her manner had been very serious when she first said that she had seen the man before.
"Jones," Lady Fitzgerald had said to her, very earnestly, "if you know more about this man than you are telling me, you are bound to speak out, and let me know everything." "Who--I, my lady?
what could I know?
Only he do look to me like the same man, and so I thought it right to say to your ladyship." Lady Fitzgerald had seen that there was nothing more to be gained by cross-questioning, and so she had allowed the matter to drop.

But she was by no means satisfied that this servant whom she so trusted did not know more than she had told.

And then Mrs.Jones had been with her in those dreadful Dorsetshire days, and an undefined fear began to creep over her very soul.
"God bless you, my child!" said Lady Fitzgerald, as her son got up to leave her.

And then she embraced him with more warmth even than was her wont.