"I am very glad to see you." He motioned me to a chair facing the window, a great uncurtained affair, through which the north light came flooding in, whilst he himself sat in the shadows.
"I trust," he said, "that you have quite recovered from your last night's indisposition.

My daughter has been telling me about it." "Quite, thank you," I answered.

"Lady Angela and Colonel Ray were very kind to me." He nodded, and then glanced at the papers on his desk.
"I have been going through several matters connected with the estate, Mr.Ducaine," he said, "and I have come across one which concerns you." "The proposed lease of the Grange," I remarked.
"Exactly.

It seems that you arranged a three years' tenancy with Mr.
Hulshaw, my agent, and were then not prepared to carry it out." "It was scarcely my own fault," I interposed.

"I explained the circumstances to Mr.Hulshaw.I was promised two pupils if I took a suitable house in this neighbourhood, but, after all my plans were concluded, their father died unexpectedly, and their new guardian made other arrangements." "Exactly," the Duke remarked.