It was surely the strangest drive that husband and wife had ever taken together.

More than once, noting the silent, graceful figure, Lord Arleigh was tempted to ask Madaline to fly with him to some foreign land, where they could live and die unknown--more than once he was tempted to kiss the beautiful lips and say to her, "Madaline, you shall not leave me;" but the dishonor attaching to his name caused him to remain silent.
They had a rapid drive, and reached Winiston House--as it was generally called--before eleven.

Great was the surprise and consternation excited by so unexpected an arrival.

The house was in the charge of a widow whose husband had been the late, lord's steward.

She looked somewhat dubiously at Lord Arleigh and then at his companion, when they had entered.