"Which is it?
Yes, or No ?" She looked at him with sad compassionate eyes.

Her voice was firm as she answered him in one word as he had desired.

The word was-- "No." Without speaking to her, without even looking at her, he turned and walked back to the cottage.
Making his way silently through the group of visitors--every one of whom had been informed of what had happened by his sister--with his head down and his lips fast closed, he entered the parlor and rang the bell which communicated with his foreman's rooms at the stables.
"You know that I am going abroad on business ?" he said, when the man appeared.
"Yes, sir." "I am going to-day--going by the night train to Dover.

Order the horse to be put to instantly in the dogcart.

Is there anything wanted before I am off ?" The inexorable necessities of business asserted their claims through the obedient medium of the foreman.