On that very morning, Lady Lydiard, speaking to me of her nephew's visit to her, said, 'If I had given him an opportunity of speaking, Felix would have borrowed money of me; I saw it in his face.' One moment more, Isabel.

I am not only certain that Mr.Sweetsir took the five-hundred pound note out of the open letter, I am firmly persuaded that he is the man who told Lord Rotherfield of the circumstances under which you left Lady Lydiard's house.

Your marriage to Mr.Hardyman might have put you in a position to detect the theft.

You, not I, might, in that case, have discovered from your husband that the stolen note was the note with which Mr.Sweetsir paid his debt.

He came here, you may depend on it, to make sure that he had succeeded in destroying your prospects.