All sorts of kind remembrances; Lucia said you would be sure to meet some day." "Did they never speak of seeing you in England ?" "Never.

On the contrary, my impression is that they had no intention of going to England." "That is strange; yet if they had they would scarcely have gone by Havre, unless to avoid all chance of meeting me." "Why should they do that ?" Maurice said nothing, he only changed his position and looked at his father.

Mr.Leigh had asked the question suddenly, with the first dawn of a new idea in his mind, but at his son's silent answer he shrank back in his chair breathless with dismay.

So after all he _had_ been a traitor! With his mistaken fancies about change and absence, he had been doing all he could to destroy the very scheme that was dearest to him, and which he now saw was dearest to Maurice also.

And he knew now that there had been something in Mrs.Costello's manner lately less friendly to Maurice than was usual.