But still time rolls on, the pilgrimage draws to its close, and the Canaan must come at last! At Valerie's house, Maltravers once more met the De Montaignes.

It was a painful meeting, for they thought of Cesarini when they met.
It is now time to return to that unhappy man.

Cesarini had been removed from England when Maltravers quitted it after Lady Florence's death; and Maltravers had thought it best to acquaint De Montaigne with all the circumstances that had led to his affliction.

The pride and the honour of the high-spirited Frenchman were deeply shocked by the tale of fraud and guilt, softened as it was; but the sight of the criminal, his awful punishment, merged every other feeling in compassion.

Placed under the care of the most skilful practitioners in Paris, great hopes of Cesarini's recovery had been at first entertained.