CHAPTER II.
HOW MARGARET PLEADS FOR THE LITTLE HOYDEN, AND WITH WHAT ILL-SUCCESS.
Margaret Knollys, entering the room and seeing the signs of agitation in the two faces before her, stops on the threshold.
"I am disturbing you.

I can come again," says she, in her clear, calm voice.
"No," says Mrs.Bethune abruptly.
She makes a gesture as if to keep her.
"Not at all.

Not at all, dear Margaret.

Pray stay, and give me a little help," says Lady Rylton plaintively.
She pulls forward a little chair near her, as if to show Margaret that she must say, and Miss Knollys comes quickly to her.

Marian Bethune is Lady Rylton's real niece.