He turned, crossed the room, sat down on the sofa beside Mrs.
Horncastle, and without, however, looking at her, said, with his eyes on the floor, "No; and I've been thinking that it's hardly worth while to disturb her so early to-morrow as I should have to go.

So I think it's a good deal better to let her have a good night's rest, remain here quietly with you to-morrow until the stage leaves, and that both of you come over together.

My horse is still saddled, and I will be back at Hymettus before Demorest has gone to bed." He was obliged to look up at her as he rose.

Mrs.Horncastle was sitting erect, beautiful and dazzling as even he had never seen her before.
For his resolution had suddenly lifted a great weight from her shoulders,--the dangerous meeting of husband and wife the next morning, and its results, whatever they might be, had been quietly averted.

She felt, too, a half-frightened joy even in the constrained manner in which he had imparted his determination.