But it may not be necessary to go so far.

I expect that I shall be able to stay at Guessens and come up to London when it is necessary.

Thank you very much, Mrs.Adair.It is a good plan." And he added slowly, "From my point of view there could be no better." Ethne watched Durrance drive away with his servant to his old rooms in St.James's Street, and stood by the window after he had gone, in much the same attitude and absorption as that which had characterised her before he had come.

Outside in the street the carriages were now coming back from the park, and there was just one other change.

Ethne's apprehensions had taken a more definite shape.
She believed that suspicion was quieted in Durrance for to-day, at all events.