Yes! yes! Look as angry as you like! you don't know what has been going on upstairs.

Lady Janet is bent on breaking off our engagement--and Julian Gray is at the bottom of it." As to Julian, Horace was utterly wrong.

But as to Lady Janet, he echoed the warning words which Julian himself had spoken to Mercy.

She was staggered, but she still held to her own opinion.

"I don't believe it," she said, firmly.
He advanced a step, and fixed his angry eyes on her searchingly.
"Do you know why Lady Janet sent for me ?" he asked.
"No." "Then I will tell you.