Quite the contrary.

He advanced to meet me with the utmost eagerness.
"Dear Miss Clack, I have been only waiting to see you! Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time." Not the slightest embarrassment encumbered his explanation, though this was his first meeting with me after the scene in Montagu Square.

He was not aware, it is true, of my having been a witness of that scene.

But he knew, on the other hand, that my attendances at the Mothers' Small-Clothes, and my relations with friends attached to other charities, must have informed me of his shameless neglect of his Ladies and of his Poor.

And yet there he was before me, in full possession of his charming voice and his irresistible smile! "Have you seen Rachel yet ?" I asked.
He sighed gently, and took me by the hand.