The unexpected discovery sent a scarlet pulsation through Grace for the moment.

However, it was only Giles who stood there, of whom she had no fear; and her self-possession returned.
"He said I was to sound you with a view to--what you will understand, if you care to," continued Winterborne, in a low voice.

Having been put on this track by herself, he was not disposed to abandon it in a hurry.
They had been children together, and there was between them that familiarity as to personal affairs which only such acquaintanceship can give.

"You know, Giles," she answered, speaking in a very practical tone, "that that is all very well; but I am in a very anomalous position at present, and I cannot say anything to the point about such things as those." "No ?" he said, with a stray air as regarded the subject.

He was looking at her with a curious consciousness of discovery.