Now I am not wanted.

So I do." "That's not the true explanation," Mrs.Linforth said gently, and she shook her head.

She spoke so gently and with so clear a note of sympathy and comprehension that Sir John was at more pains than ever to discover who she was.

To hardly anyone would it naturally have occurred that Sir John Casson, with a tail of letters to his name, and a handsome pension, enjoyed at an age when his faculties were alert and his bodily strength not yet diminished, could stand in need of sympathy.

But that precisely was the fact, as the woman at his side understood.