Morris again sat silent for a time, then spoke evenly and quietly.
"Two nights ago you were dining with us," he said, "and Madge was there.
Do you remember my asking her if I might come to see them, and she said she and her mother would be out all day ?" "Yes; I remember perfectly," said Mr.Taynton.
"Well, yesterday afternoon I was motoring by the park, and I saw Madge sitting on the lawn.

I stopped the motor and watched.

She sat there for nearly an hour, and then Sir Richard came out of the house and they walked up and down the lawn together." "Ah, you must have been mistaken," said Mr.Taynton.

"I know the spot you mean on the road, where you can see the lawn, but it's half a mile off.
It must have been some friend of hers perhaps staying in the house." Morris shook his head.
"I was not mistaken," he said.

"For yesterday evening I got a note from her, saying she had posted it secretly, but that she must see me, though she was forbidden to do so, or to hold any communication with me." "Forbidden ?" ejaculated Mr.Taynton.
"Yes, forbidden.