"We should have heard if there had been anything wrong." The next day a letter was handed to her.

She recognized the handwriting--it was Lord Arleigh's.

She laid the note down, not daring to read it before Lady Peters.

What had he to say to her?
When she was alone she opened it.
"You will be pleased to hear, duchess, that your scheme has entirely succeeded.

You have made two innocent people who have never harmed you as wretched as it is possible for human beings to be.