"He's at the 'Cart and Horses' at Bellingham." "Was he on good terms with Lord Loudwater ?" "They were quite friendly up to about a fortnight ago.

The Colonel used to play billiards with his lordship and stay on to dinner two or three times a week.

Then they had a quarrel--about the way his lordship treated her ladyship.

Holloway, the footman, heard it, and the Colonel told his lordship that he was a cad and a blackguard, and he hasn't been here since." "But he met Lady Loudwater in the wood ?" "So his lordship declared," said Mrs.Carruthers in a non-committal tone.
"Do you know how Lord Loudwater came to hear of their meeting ?" "Twitcher said that he must have had it from one of the under-gamekeepers, a young fellow called William Roper.

Roper asked to see his lordship that evening and was very mysterious about his errand, so that it looks as if she might be right.