In reporting what Penrose said, I communicate a discovery, which I venture to think will be as welcome to you, as it was to me.
"He began by reminding me of what I had myself told him in speaking of Romayne.

'You mentioned having heard from Lord Loring of a great sorrow or remorse from which he was suffering,' Penrose said.

'I know what he suffers and why he suffers, and with what noble resignation he submits to his affliction.

We were sitting together at the table, looking over his notes and memoranda, when he suddenly dropped the manuscript from which he was reading to me.

A ghastly paleness overspread his face.