And now that it was too late, he began to feel that he had made a mistake.

It seemed to him that he had visited upon her, in some indirect way, the misfortune which had befallen him.

It was scarcely her fault that she had been the object of attentions which nearly every one agreed were unwelcome, from this young princeling.

Norgate told himself, as he changed his clothes that evening, that his behaviour had been the behaviour of a jealous school-boy.

Then an inspiration seized him.