"He was with me at Oxford.

A Captain Luttrell." But it was clear almost at once that the name had no associations in Lady Splay's mind.

She preferred to entertain her friends in the country than to live in town.

She knew little of what gossip might run the streets of London; and since Luttrell was, as yet, like Sir Chichester, in that he was not a public character, there had been no wide-run gossip about Stella Croyle or himself which Millicent Splay was likely to meet.
Hillyard thought at first, that with a woman's self-control she turned a blank face to him of a set purpose.

But one little movement of hers reassured him.