Well, Captain Vidall should face it in all its crudeness.

So, in a week or less, Marion and Mrs.Townley were in Greyhope.
Two months had gone since Lali arrived in England, and yet no letter had come to her, or to any of them, from Frank.

Frank's solicitor in London had written him fully of her arrival, and he had had a reply, with further instructions regarding money to be placed to General Armour's credit for the benefit of his wife.

Lali, as she became Europeanised, also awoke to the forms and ceremonies of her new life.

She had overheard Frank's father and mother wondering, and fretting as they wondered, why they had not received any word from him.