business.

It has put us in a false relation which was exasperating me and puzzling you.
Moreover the disguise was wearing very thin.

Only those two loyal souls, Honoria Fraser and Albert Adams, were cognizant of the secret, but it was being guessed at and almost guessed right, in certain quarters.

Professional jealousy was on my track.

I never fainted before in my life--so far as I can remember--but I might have done so elsewhere than in your dear house, after the strain of such an effort as I made to save that worthless woman--she was your cousin, which is why I fought for her so hard--How often is not justice deflected by Love! I might, somewhere else, when over-strained have had a fit of hysterics; and my disguise would have been penetrated by eyes less merciful than yours.