It is possible in that case that I have not seen you before to-day, that the things with which I charge you are false, that in all probability you were in some other place altogether.

If this is so, I apologize for my remarks and behaviour towards you." He bowed with a faint mirthless smile.
"It is finished, my young friend," he declared.

"I wipe it from my memory." It seemed to me that I could hear Blenavon's sigh of relief, that the shadow had fallen from Lady Angela's face.

There was a little murmur of satisfaction from both of them.

But I turned abruptly, and with scarcely even an attempt at a conventional farewell I left the house, and walked homewards across the Park..