Indeed, he wondered bow she had preserved it in her father's house.

This was not a matter he could touch upon; but presently she referred to it.
"I imagine," she said shyly, "that on the evening when you came to my rescue in London you were surprised to find me--so unprepared; so incapable of dealing with the situation." "That is true," Blake answered with some awkwardness.

"A bachelor dinner, you know, after a big race meeting at which we had backed several winners! One has to make allowances." Millicent smiled rather bitterly.
"You may guess that I had to make them often in those days; but it was on the evening we were speaking of that my eyes were first opened, and I was startled.

But you must understand that it was not by my father's wish that I came to London and stayed with him--until the end.

He urged me to go away; but his health had broken down and he had no one else to care for him.