And yet his views of women had undergone a change; he was not the same man who had discussed Molly Wilcox in the billiard-room at Thorneytoft three years ago.

One thing he noticed which was new.

Mrs.Nevill Tyson was not literary; but whenever he called now he always found her sitting with some book in her hand, which she instantly hid behind the cushions of her chair.

Stanistreet unearthed three of these volumes one day.

They were "Barrack-Room Ballads," "With Gordon in the Soudan," "India: What it can Teach Us"-- a work, if you please, on Vedic philosophy, annotated in pencil by Tyson.