"Where did you come from?
And what do you mean ?" "I heard at the lodge that your ladyship and Grace had returned last night.

And I came in at once without troubling the servants, by the shortest way." He turned to Julian next.

"The woman you were speaking of just now," he proceeded, "has been here again already--in Lady Janet's absence." Lady Janet immediately looked at her nephew.

Julian reassured her by a gesture.
"Impossible," he said.

"There must be some mistake." "There is no mistake," Horace rejoined.