Fyne himself was down there with his family for a whole week and was called to the window to behold the iniquity in its progress and to share in his wife's feelings.

There was not even a groom with them.

And Mrs.Fyne's distress was so strong at this glimpse of the unlucky girl all unconscious of her danger riding smilingly by, that Fyne began to consider seriously whether it wasn't their plain duty to interfere at all risks--simply by writing a letter to de Barral.

He said to his wife with a solemnity I can easily imagine "You ought to undertake that task, my dear.

You have known his wife after all.