"I do not even know what it means yet," he said, "and I want to know, for I believe there is some misunderstanding between us, and it is the trick of your sex to perpetuate misunderstandings by forbidding all allusions to them.

Perhaps, leaving Lyvern so hastily, I forgot to fulfil some promise, or to say farewell, or something of that sort.

But do you know how suddenly I was called away?
I got a telegram to say that Henrietta was dying, and I had only time to change my clothes--you remember my disguise--and catch the express.

And, after all, she was dead when I arrived." "I know that," said Agatha uneasily.

"Please say no more about it." "Not if it distresses you.