"For whom is your concern?
For Count Samoval or Ned ?" she inquired, and added with a laugh: "You needn't answer me.

It is Ned you are afraid for." "I am certainly not afraid for him," was the reply on a faint note of indignation.

She had reddened slightly.

"But I should not like to see Captain Tremayne or any other British officer embroiled in a duel.
You forget Lord Wellington's order which they were discussing, and the consequences of infringing it." Lady O'Moy became scared.
"You don't imagine--" Sylvia spoke quickly: "I am certain that unless you take Captain Tremayne away, and at once, there will! be serious trouble." And now behold Lady O'Moy thrown into a state of alarm that bordered upon terror.

She had more reason than Sylvia could dream, more reason she conceived than Sylvia herself, to wish to keep Captain Tremayne out of trouble just at present.