He remembered the spring of pleasure he felt when he first saw other faces like his father's--his grandfather's, his grandmother's.

But this girl's was so different to him; having the tragedy of the lawless, that unconscious suffering stamped by the mother upon the child.

There was, however, nothing to be done.

He must wait.
Two days later Lady Dargan called to inquire after him.

He was lying in his study with a book, and Lady Belward sent to ask him if he would care to see her and Lord Dargan's nephew, Cluny Vosse.