4/24 I don't want him to know that I ever received it." Mrs.Adair was puzzled, and she hated to be puzzled. She had been shown the telegram, but she had not been told that Ethne had written to Durrance, pledging herself to him immediately upon its receipt. Ethne, when she showed the telegram, had merely said, "I am engaged to him." Mrs.Adair at once believed that the engagement had been of some standing, and she had been allowed to continue in that belief. "But there is a reason, I suppose. I don't understand why you exact the promise." "Two lives must not be spoilt because of me." There was some ground for Mrs.Adair's suspicion that Ethne expected the blind man to whom she was betrothed, with apprehension. |