She had gone back to her old home after the duke's death.

She, at least, had grieved for him and Michael with an intensity which he had never forgotten.

Even in her widowed desolation she had remembered Michael, and always asked after him when Wentworth went over to Priesthope.

And Wentworth was often there, for one reason or another.

Michael, too, had asked after her, and had sent her a message by his brother.