In another moment the change came; in another moment he understood her.

As he touched her cheek with his lips, he turned pale again.

"Don't quite forget me," he said, in low, faltering tones--and left her.
Miss Pink met Isabel in the hall.

Refreshed by unbroken repose, the ex-schoolmistress was in the happiest frame of mind for the reception of her niece's news.
Informed that Moody had travelled to South Morden to personally report the progress of the inquiries, Miss Pink highly approved of him as a substitute for Mr.Troy.

"Mr.Moody, as a banker's son, is a gentleman by birth," she remarked; "he has condescended, in becoming Lady Lydiard's steward.