Lionel hastened to pick it up for him.
"I have been thinking, sir, that it might be well for Decima to go in the carriage to the station, to receive Miss Tempest.

Shall I order it ?" "Order anything you like; order all Verner's Pride--what does it matter?
Better for some of us, perhaps, that it had never existed." Hastily, abruptly, carelessly was the answer given.

There was no mistaking that Mr.Verner was nearly beside himself with mental pain.
Lionel went round to the stables, to give the order he had suggested.
One great feature in the character of Lionel Verner was its complete absence of assumption.

Courteously refined in mind and feelings, he could not have presumed.

Others, in his position, might have deemed they were but exercising a right.