CHAPTER VII.
SANS REPROCHE.
Three or four days after writing his letter to Kate O'Hara, the Earl told his aunt that he must return to Ireland, and he named the day on which he would leave Scroope.

"I did not think that you would go back there," she said.

He could see by the look of her face and by the anxious glance of her eye that she had in her heart the fear of Kate O'Hara,--as he had also.
"I must return.

I came away at a moment's notice." "But you have written about leaving the regiment." "Yes;--I have done that.

In the peculiar circumstances I don't suppose they will want me to serve again.