All through breakfast, Sabine devoted herself sedulously to Lord Fordyce--and this produced two results.

It sent Henry into a seventh heaven and caused Michael to burn with jealous rage.

Primitive instincts were a good deal taking possession of him--and he found it extremely difficult to keep up his role of disinterested friend.

It must be admitted he was in really a very difficult position for any man, and it is not very easy to decide what he ought to have done short of telling Henry the truth at once--but this he found grew every moment more hard to do.

It would mean that he would have to leave Heronac immediately.