He felt the less uneasy at going, since he had learnt that Captain De Stancy would return at once to Amiens to his sick sister, and see them safely home when she improved.

He afterwards left the castle, disappearing towards a railway station some miles above Markton, the road to which lay across an unfrequented down.
XII.
It was a fine afternoon of late summer, nearly three months subsequent to the death of Sir William De Stancy and Paula's engagement to marry his successor in the title.

George Somerset had started on a professional journey that took him through the charming district which lay around Stancy Castle.

Having resigned his appointment as architect to that important structure--a resignation which had been accepted by Paula through her solicitor--he had bidden farewell to the locality after putting matters in such order that his successor, whoever he might be, should have no difficulty in obtaining the particulars necessary to the completion of the work in hand.

Hardly to his surprise this successor was Havill.
Somerset's resignation had been tendered in no hasty mood.