And then as two or three decided--Mrs.Belgrove amongst the number--there really could be nothing in the report that he loved Lady Agnes still, else he would scarcely come and stay where she was.

As for Pine's wife, she was a washed-out creature, who had never really loved her cousin as people had thought.

And after all, why should she, since he was so poor, especially when she was married to a millionaire with the looks of an Eastern prince, and manners of quite an original nature, although these were not quite conventional.

Oh, yes, there was nothing in the scandal that said Garvington had sold his sister to bolster up the family property.

Lady Agnes was quite happy, and her husband was a dear man, who left her a great deal to her own devices--which he wouldn't have done had he suspected the cousin; and who gave her pots of money to spend.