Only believe, as I believe." Neither John Law nor the Lady Catharine Knollys saw what was passing just without the room.

They did not see the set face which looked down from the stairway.

Through the open door Mary Connynge could see the young man as he stepped out of the door, could see the conduct of the girl now left alone in the drawing-room.

She saw the Lady Catharine sink down upon the seat, her head drooped in thought, her hand lying languidly out before her.

Pale now and distraught, the Lady Catharine Knollys wist little of what went on before her.