I had heard of him before." These last words Lady Glencora spoke in a lower voice and in an altered tone,--slowly, as though she were thinking of something that pained her.

It was from Burgo Fitzgerald that she had heard of George Vavasor.
Alice did not know what to say.

She found it impossible to discuss all the most secret and deepest of her feelings out in that open carriage, perhaps in the hearing of the servant behind, on this her first meeting with her cousin,--of whom, in fact, she knew very little.

She had not intended to discuss these things at all, and certainly not in such a manner as this.

So she remained silent.