So at least Harry Clavering was only too ready to believe.

He did not care much for Lord Ongar in the matter.

His anger was against her; that she should have deserted him for a miserable creature, who had nothing to back him but wealth and rank! There was wretchedness in every view of the matter.

He loved her so well, and yet he could do nothing! He could take no step toward saving her or assisting himself.

The marriage bells would ring within a month from the present time, and his own father would go to the church and marry them.