But Godfrey was too proud or too agitated to sit.
"You will be surprised to see me on such an errand, Miss Marston!" he said.
"I do not yet know your errand," replied Mary; "but I may not be so much surprised as you think." "Do not imagine," said Godfrey, stiffly, "that I believe a word of the contemptible reports in circulation.

I come only to ask you to tell me the real nature of the accusations brought against Miss Yolland: your name is, of course, coupled with them." "Mr.Wardour," said Mary, "if I thought you would believe what I told yon, I would willingly do as you ask me.

As it is, allow me to refer you to Mr.Brett, the lawyer, whom I dare say you know." Happily, the character of Mr.Brett was well known in Testbridge and all the country round; and from him Godfrey Wardour learned what sent him traveling on the Continent again--not in the hope of finding Sepia.
What became of her, none of her family ever learned.
Some time after, it came out that the same night on which the presence of Joseph rescued Mary from her pursuer, a man speaking with a foreign accent went to one of the surgeons in Testbridge to have his shoulder set, which he said had been dislocated by a fall.

When Joseph heard it, he smiled, and thought he knew what it meant.
Hesper was no sooner in London, than she wrote to Mary, inviting her to go and visit her.

But Mary answered she could no more leave home, and must content herself with the hope of seeing Mrs.Redmain when she came to Durnmelling.
So long as her husband lived, the time for that did not again arrive; but when Mary went to London, she always called on her, and generally saw Mr.Redmain.But they never had any more talk about the things Mary loved most.