4/14 But now I think I shall turn in. I want to have my eye rested, and be as fit as a fiddle for the shoot. I have had a tiring week." And Francis Markrute came out with him into the passage and up to the first floor, and when they got so far they heard the notes of the _Chanson Triste_ being played again from Zara's sitting-room. She had not gone to bed, then, it seemed! "Good God!" said Tristram. "I don't know why, but I wish to heaven she would not play that tune." And the two men looked at one another with some uneasy wonder in their eyes. |