I warn you never to run the risk of testing him.

He may be as honest in this matter as he pretends.

But if ever Dick were to come to you for help, you must take no risk." The phrase was a happier one than Sylvia could suppose.

It was almost the very phrase that Dick himself had used; and its reiteration by another bore conviction to her ladyship.
"To whom then should I go ?" she demanded plaintively.

And Sylvia, speaking with knowledge, remembering the promise that Tremayne had given her, answered readily: "There is but one man whose assistance you could safely seek.