What has he to do with you ?" She looked up at him in wonder.
"Do you not know ?" she asked.

"Have they not told you I am Lord Arleigh's wife ?" * * * * * Lord Arleigh felt very disconsolate that June morning.

The world was so beautiful, so bright, so fair, it seemed hard that he should have no pleasure in it.

If fate had but been kinder to him! To increase his dullness, Lord Mountdean, who had been staying with him some days, had suddenly disappeared.

He had gone out early in the morning, saying that he would have a long ramble in the woods, and would probably not return until noon for luncheon.