Sometimes Silver accompanied her, as the lady had given him to understand that she knew Pine's real rank and name, so the two were made free of the Bohemians and frequently chatted with Ishmael Hearne.

But they kept his secret, as did Chaldea; and Garvington had no idea that the man he dreaded and hated--who flung money to him as if he were tossing a bone to a dog--was within speaking distance.

If he had known, he would assuredly have guessed the reason why Sir Hubert Pine had interested himself in the doings of a wandering tribe of undesirable creatures.
A week passed away and still, although Miss Greeby made daily inquiries, Lambert did not put in an appearance at the forest cottage.

Thinking that he had departed to escape her, she made up her impatient mind to repair to London, and to hunt him up at his club.

With this idea she intimated to Lady Garvington that she was leaving The Manor early next morning.