Can you ?" There was no use in disguising the truth; sooner or later he must find it out.
"I think I can," I answered.

"I believe Rose left here for the very purpose she has accomplished, and not to visit Virginie Leblanc." "You believe that letter, then ?" "Yes: I fear it is too true." "But, heavens above! What would she elope for?
We were all willing she should marry La Touche." "I don't think it is with M.La Touche," I said, reluctantly.

"I wish it were.

I am afraid it is worse than that." He stood looking at me, waiting, too agitated to speak.

I told him the worst at once.
"I am afraid it is with Reginald Stanford." "Grace," he said, looking utterly confounded, "what do you mean ?" I made him sit down, and told him what perhaps I should have told him long ago, my suspicions of that young Englishman.