"I am the last on earth to blame you for flying from a detested marriage.

But there is no need to wear this disguise longer, surely ?" "No; no need.

But I have had no opportunity of changing it; and if I do not succeed in finding my nurse at Plymouth, I don't know what will become of me." "Have you not her address ?" "No; neither have I heard from her in a long, long time.

She lived in Plymouth years ago with her married daughter, but we never corresponded; and whether she is there now, or whether indeed she is living at all, I do not know.

I caught at the hope as the drowning catch at straws." Sir Everard looked at her in that thoughtful pause.