It was a very silent drive, for the baronet sat moodily staring at vacancy, his mouth set in hard, wordless pain.
"They will tell Olivia," he was thinking, gloomily.

"What will she say to all this ?" But his fears seemed groundless.

Lady Kingsland treated the matter with cool indifference.

To be sure, she had not heard quite all.

A madwoman had burst into the church, had terrified Lady Helen pretty nearly to death with her crazy language, and had tried to tear away the baby.