She remembered also Raymond's capacities for borrowing.

A sudden instinct told her what the drift of that letter had been.

The blood rushed into her face.
"Oh, he didn't--did he ?" The other three people were talking together; Lady Mary, opposite, was joining with a bland smile of inward satisfaction in the discussion between Ralph and Evelyn as to the rival merits of "Cochin Chinas" and "Plymouth Rocks." "If he did," said Charles, quietly, "it was only what we had often done for each other before.

There was a time, Miss Deyncourt, when your brother and I both rowed in the same boat; and both, I fancy, split on the same rock.

It was not so long since--" There was a sudden silence.