Will you excuse what must seem to you a very strange request?
I should like to see the dining-room again, if there is no objection, and if I am disturbing nobody." The "strange requests" of rich men are of the nature of "privileged communications," for this excellent reason, that they are sure not to be requests for money.

Mr.Vanborough was shown into the dining-room.

The master of the house, secretly wondering, watched him.
He walked straight to a certain spot on the carpet, not far from the window that led into the garden, and nearly opposite the door.

On that spot he stood silently, with his head on his breast--thinking.

Was it _there_ he had seen her for the last time, on the day when he left the room forever?
Yes; it was there.